Blues Quotes

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

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

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.

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

He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places.

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

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

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.

Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

I used to be a great blues singer.

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

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

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.

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.

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

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.