Blues Quotes - page 2

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me. (Robin Trower)
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. View quote
Keith Richards
They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone But only songs like these Played in minor keys Keep those memories holding on. View quote
Billy Joel
It was so easy living day by day Out of touch with the rhythm and blues But now I need a little give and take The New York Times, The Daily News. View quote
Billy Joel
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits. View quote
Willie Dixon
According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The first thing that came out of man is the blues because, according to the Scriptures, when God made man, man was lonesome and blue. View quote
Willie Dixon
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. View quote
Mahalia Jackson
She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues And you know it don't come easy. View quote
Ringo Starr
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing. View quote
Ralph Ellison
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy, but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically. (Ralph Ellison)
What's holding me up is I'm confused about the nature of the music. Because the modern music doesn't reach me. I mean to say the sound of the modern electric production. A lot of sequencers... synths. That's what people are buying. Because that doesn't reach me, it throws me back to like 1948, but I don't want to be there. Back there, I'm talking about blues records.... The roots of rock 'n' roll is rhythm and blues and that's like really where I'm at, where I was always at. View quote
Joe Strummer
Catch a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain. Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone, wherever I have gone... The blues are all the same. View quote
Jackson C. Frank
From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blow I been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I know A woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night. View quote
Johnny Mercer
Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, 'This is what salvation must be like after a while.' But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles. View quote
Bob Dylan
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing. View quote
Chris Rock
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics. View quote
James Weldon Johnson
I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard. View quote
Little Richard
Even geniuses get the blues. The more I write the less substance I see in my work, ... It is tolerably awful. And I face it, I face it but the fright is growing on me. My fortitude is shaken by the view of the monster. It does not move its eyes are baleful it is as still as death itself -- and it will devour me. Its stare has eaten into my soul already deep, deep. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky. View quote
Mary E. Pearson
I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King. (Maurice Gibb)
They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records. View quote
Maurice Gibb
It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues. View quote
Barry Gibb
I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand. View quote
Barry Gibb
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. View quote
B. B. King