Blues Music Quotes
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Blues Music Quotes & Sayings
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Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
— Brownie McGhee
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
— Dwight Yoakam
I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.
— Johnny Winter
There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.
— Townes Van Zandt
And here's to the blues, the real blues - where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.
— David Mutti Clark
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
— B.B. King
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
— Mark Knopfler
I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.
— Henry Rollins
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
— Edgar Winter
I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
— Bill Nighy
All music is the blues. All of it.
— George Carlin
The music plays ... and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream.
— David Mutti Clark
Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.
— Albert Collins
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
— Michael Tippett
For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source
— Duke Robillard
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
— Miles Davis
The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we're bound.
— David Mutti Clark
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
— Christina Aguilera
No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.
— Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
— John Lescroart
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
— Keith Richards
Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.
— Buddy Guy
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything
— Bonnie Raitt
So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything.
— B.J. The Chicago Kid
If you don't live it, you don't believe it.
— Paul Harvey
I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.
— Benjamin Booker
Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.
— Jerry Leiber
If you don't know the blues ... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
— Keith Richards
I was into playing American music, especially the blues.
— Mark Knopfler
We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.
— Wynton Marsalis
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
— Bruce Springsteen
As far as we were concerned, we were just a blues band that had decided to write some scary music.
— Ozzy Osbourne
Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.
— Eric Clapton
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC — Kurt Vonnegut
The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.
— Leon Redbone
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
— Ray Charles
I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
— Bryan Ferry
What about a blues in W, in the key of W.
— Rahsaan Roland Kirk
I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.
— Mahalia Jackson
I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
— Edgar Winter
We start our lives with blues ... with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head.
— David Mutti Clark
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.
— Adrian Mitchell
In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.
— Henry Rollins
I've never met God, but I've heard the blues.
— David Mutti Clark
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
— Aaron Neville
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.
— Miles Davis
So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.
— James Young
The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.
— Ted Alexandro
I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.
— Al Jourgensen
Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
— Peter Tork
I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.
— Justin Townes Earle
The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.
— Vance Gilbert
Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.
— Linda Barnes
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
— Langston Hughes
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.
— James Weldon Johnson
The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.
— Alberta Hunter
On my John Coltrane. In a sentimental mood.
— Brandi L. Bates
It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head.
— Charlie Musselwhite
If you're going to get into music, you've got to learn the 12-bar blues.
— Johnny Ramistella
All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.
— Maya Angelou
I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.
— Elizabeth Jagger
I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.
— Ato Essandoh
The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
— Odetta
You might say that the universe plays the blues.
— David Byrne
