Blues Quotes

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

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 have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

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

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

But my big thing was always the blues.

In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

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

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

I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

Blues was made for the recessed.

The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.

To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed.

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

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

I like blue a lot, and greens. Earthy blues and greens.

I not only played and sang blues, but I also had to toss the piano around a bit to amuse the patrons.

My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

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

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

They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

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.

The blues is life itself.

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands.

Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.

If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up.

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.

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.

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am.

I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.

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

But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

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.

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

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

I am very excited to be here in Wales and look forward to putting on the Cardiff Blues shirt.

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

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

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

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

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.

I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

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

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.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.