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Blues People Quotes & Sayings

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I think the blues will always be around. People need it. — Johnny Winter

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. — Brownie McGhee

So the blues player, he ain't worried and bothered, but he's got something for the worried people. — Roosevelt Sykes

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels. — Ernest Gaines

Some people tell me that the worried blues ain't bad. Worst old feelin' I most ever had. — Robert Johnson

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future. — Willie Dixon

A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is ... — Howlin' Wolf

Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites. — Jonny Lang

Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively. — Gillian Flynn

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living. — Bonnie Raitt

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right — Muddy Waters

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire! — B.B. King

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys. — Brian Setzer

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired. — Steven Bochco

Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing. — Chris Rock

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die. — B.B. King

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues. — B.B. King

Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if it sounds good it does. — Wynton Marsalis

We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word. — Wynton Marsalis

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money. — B.B. King

I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard. — Little Richard

There are only old people here. — Christie Walker Bos

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. — Ethel Waters

The blues is not a plaything like some people think they are. — Son House

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts. — Steve Cropper

Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going. — Langston Hughes

On my John Coltrane. In a sentimental mood. — Brandi L. Bates

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people. — Albert Murray

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs. — Earl King

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues. — Barry Gibb

The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out, and people weren't diggin' the blues as much. — Johnny Winter

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues. — Luther Allison

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards. — Janis Joplin

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues. — Johnny Winter