Blues Quotes - page 4

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues. (Brian Setzer)
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. View quote
Brownie McGhee
Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.' View quote
Buddy Guy
I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences. View quote
Benjamin Booker
I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you. View quote
Chadwick Boseman
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. View quote
Charlie Rich
I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed with them, and I always have been. View quote
Charlie Siem
I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life. View quote
Chris Isaak
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. View quote
Christine McVie
I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear. View quote
Carly Rae Jepsen
Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy. (Dan Castellaneta)
I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me. View quote
Derek Bailey
If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up. View quote
Dexter Gordon
Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs. View quote
Earl King
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. View quote
Ethel Waters
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. View quote
Etta James
Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't. View quote
Etta James
I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues. View quote
Edgar Winter
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. View quote
George Thorogood
The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. Its cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. Its not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant. View quote
Gary Clark, Jr.
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression. (Gary Clark, Jr.)
You don't have to live the blues to play the blues. View quote
Herbie Mann
I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that. View quote
Harry Seidler
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. View quote
Hayley Mills
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. View quote
Ike Turner