Blues Quotes

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
Edgar Winter

Music, Two, American

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
Edgar Winter

Heart, Definitely, Yeah

The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over.
Christine McVie

Beautiful, Mind, Pretty

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.
Christine McVie

Love, Money, Successful

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.
Ike Turner

Today, Different, Try

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.
Jackie DeShannon

Music, Big, Growing

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.
Charlie Rich

Hell, Guy, Sober

I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.
Dimebag Darrell

Great, Enough, Lucky

I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.
Johnny Winter

Good, Mean, Enough

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

Live, Someone, Away

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.
Johnny Winter

Away, Started, Convinced

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.
Johnny Winter

Two, Find, Whole

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

Rock, Alive, Winter

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

Person, Around, Takes

I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission.
Elizabeth Meriwether

Women, Writing, Keep

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
Patrick Carney

Real, Captain, Explosion

One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic.
Steve Winwood

Music, Rock, Done

It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized as this kind of vibrant music and when I first started playing in a blues band I just wanted to bring it to a wider public who hadn't really heard it.
Steve Winwood

Music, Why, Wanted

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

Made, Free, Sense

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

After, Jazz, Exhausted

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

Fear, Feeling, Sounds

Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.
Billy Gibbons

Since, Blood, Kid

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
Billy Gibbons

Long, Sea, Road

The blues is life itself.
Billy Gibbons

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
Willie Dixon

Life, True, Feeling

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

Live, Young, Talk

Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it.
Hayley Mills

Sunday, Long, Night

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

Sound, Sinner, Revival

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.
Greg Lake

Music, Black, Try

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.
Nick Lowe

Experience, Waiting, Hard

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