Blues Quotes

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.

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

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

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

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

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.

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.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.

The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over.

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.

I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

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.

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

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

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.

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.

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