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

And there ain't nothin' like a friend who can tell you you're just pissin' in the wind.
Neil Young, "Ambulance Blues" from "On the Beach" (1974) — Neil Young

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? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source. — B.B. King

I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart. — Eddie Kirkland

What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues. — Bono

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

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning. — Willie Dixon

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

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music. — Alvin Lee

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

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing. — Buddy Guy

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

Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them ... So you have a right to sing the blues. — Phil Rizzuto

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

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory. — Muddy Waters

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 Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing. — Bessie Smith

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

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there. — Ma Rainey

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

When I was a kid watching "The Blues Brothers," I could not think of a better thing than watching 300 cop cars crash into each other. — Will Forte

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues ... — John Lee Hooker

Love caught me with my pants down, watering skeleton flowers and humming the blues. — R.X. Bird

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

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

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

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important. — Mark Knopfler

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 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'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

You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose. — Chet Baker

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

Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues. — Elton John

Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew ... I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured — Amiri Baraka

My mama used to say the blues is an ailment that don't like no sunshine in the room. — Lisa Wingate

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

The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing. — B.B. King

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did. — B.B. King

Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace. — Tommy Bolin

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'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 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

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

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

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

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. — Jimmy Page

The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together. — Tom Waits

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

It's a circus out there, mama
and your baby's got the sideshow blues. — Todd Snider

The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do. — Vance Gilbert

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

They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me! — Buddy Guy

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