The Blues Quotes
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I think the blues will always be around. People need it.
— Johnny Winter
If you can play the blues, you can do anything.
— Ray Charles
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
— Dwight Yoakam
The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter ... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.
— Johnny Winter
You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
— Herbie Mann
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
— Willie Dixon
Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.
— Stephen Stills
If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.
— Brother Ali
Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky,
— Mary E. Pearson
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
— Edgar Winter
Get rhythm when you get the blues.
— Johnny Cash
I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
— Bill Nighy
I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.
— David Levithan
Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.
— Albert Collins
Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites.
— Jonny Lang
He says the blues can't drive depression clear out of a house, but they can drive it into the corners of any room where they are being played.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we're bound.
— David Mutti Clark
The crew on 'Varsity Blues' was phenomenal.
— Ron Lester
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 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
The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.
— Jimmy Rushing
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet
— Denis Waitley
I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues.
— Georgia Holt
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything
— Bonnie Raitt
You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will be different every time.
— Dave Brubeck
Depending on what you allow, you can still get the blues, man. I'm still trying to figure out where the blues really lies, where the street is.
— Christian Scott
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
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
— Billy Gibbons
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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
Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
— Otis Rush
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.
— Rudolph Fisher
In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.
— Henry Rollins
Hell's a-coming and we all gotta learn to play the blues. (347)
— Jonathan Maberry
I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'
— Kirk Hammett
The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me.
— B. J. Thomas
I've never met God, but I've heard the blues.
— David Mutti Clark
Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading. Put yourself behind the wheel, see if you can get that feel.
— Robbie Robertson
Blues are the songs of despair,
— Mahalia Jackson
I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
— Van Morrison
You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues ... And you know it don't come easy.
— Ringo Starr
I like to listen the blues and some classical.
— Peter Tork
Every day the men around me came to exercise their bodies; I came to exorcise my demons
— Leslie Feinberg
Blues fallin' down like hail And the day keeps on worryin' me There's a hell hound on my trail.
— Robert Johnson
It was a nephilim.""A nephi-what?" asked Hugh, startled.
"Isn't that a character on Sesame Street?" Peter spoke up for the first time. — Richelle Mead
I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.
— George Carlin
Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.
— Linda Barnes
Hearing the blues changed my life.
— Van Morrison
Catch a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain. Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone, wherever I have gone ... The blues are all the same.
— Jackson C. Frank
Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.
— David Gilmour
Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew ... I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured
— Amiri Baraka
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
— Mahalia Jackson
I could sit right here and think a thousand miles away, Since I had the blues this bad, I can't remember the day ...
— Julio Cortazar
All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.("New York Blues") — Cornell Woolrich
The last thing that the blues needs is another smart-ass white boy with an attitude.
— Brownie McGhee
I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'
— Teri Hatcher
When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
— Etta James
The blues aren't pessimistic. We're prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
— Cornel West
I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
— Eddie Floyd
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
— B.B. King
Spring is painted in daffodil yellows, robin egg blues, new grass green and the brightness of hope for a better life.
— Toni Sorenson
The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.
— Alexis Korner
When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.
— Jonny Lang
I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.
— Johnny Winter
Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
— Peter Tork
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
— John Lee Hooker
The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.
— Vance Gilbert
