Blues Music Quotes & Sayings
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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

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American -
blues music and country music, all that sort of thing. —
Nick Cave

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall. —
Eric Clapton

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

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans. —
Fats Domino

Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes. —
L.A. Reid

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. —
B.B. King

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop. —
Kid Rock

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

I think
blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music
blues music in that way. —
PJ Harvey

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor. —
Bob Dylan

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

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels. —
Steven Tyler

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around. —
Jimi Hendrix

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 love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records. —
Kesha

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

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'. —
Carla Bley

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society. —
Alexis Korner

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music. —
B.B. King

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

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues. —
Youssou N'Dour

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

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else. —
Howlin' Wolf

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

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening. —
Etta James

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time. —
Linda Barnes

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand. —
Barry Gibb

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing
blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime. —
John Mayer

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music. —
Bill Medley

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

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues. —
Ronnie Wood

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

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread
without it, it's flat. —
Carmen McRae

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

If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work —
Jeff Chain

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

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is. —
Brian Eno

You might say that the universe plays the blues. —
David Byrne

I've grown up on gospel and
blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am. —
Benjamin Booker

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music. —
Willie Dixon