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

A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.
Paul Butterfield

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.
Robert Quine

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

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.
Etta James

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

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

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.
Boz Scaggs

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
Edgar Winter

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
Janis Joplin

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

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
Alexis Korner

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

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.
Big Bill Broonzy

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
Jimi Hendrix

Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.
Alberta Hunter

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.
Mick Taylor

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.
Stevie Ray Vaughan

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.
Luther Allison

But my big thing was always the blues.
Luther Allison