Blues Quotes

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

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

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

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

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

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

I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

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

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

Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

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

If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.

We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' with the chicken wire. This place called The Brick House, in Housatonic. I really can't believe we're going to play for people in New York City. I'm terrified, but it's a small enough room. But it's really just supposed to be for the fun of it.

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.

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

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.

Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.

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

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

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.