Blues Quotes

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

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

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

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.