Blues Quotes

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

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.

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

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.

I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.

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

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.