Blues Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

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'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.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

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

I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.

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.

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

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