Blues Quotes

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

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

I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.

The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.

The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.

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.

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

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

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer.

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

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

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

I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.

It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.

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

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music.

Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.