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Blues Quotes

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

Fear Feeling Blues Finesse Like

The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to on and on and on and on and putting them all in this big pot and mixing up a new gumbo.

Robbie Robertson

Music Mountain People Blues New Big

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

Music Society Legal Blues Being

My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

Soul Blues Always Taste Out Started

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Alex Guarnaschelli

Winter Time Blues Chicken Potato

The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing.

Humble Earth Blues Sentimental Close

I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'

Time Myself Blue Blues Stop Say

But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.

Style Blues Sing Like Cabaret

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

Body Blues Your Body Your Around

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.

Lisa Marie Presley

Father Me Find Country Blues My Own

To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

Me Roots Blues Band Always Heavy

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.

Influence Think Wonder Blues More

From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

Love Me Blues Classic First Gone

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

Blues Jazz Never Like Liked Really

I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.

Benjamin Booker

Music Blues Punk Call Influences

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

People Think Blues Person Will Just

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

Life Music Man Blues Play Rock

I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues.

Love Simple Country Blues Jazz Show

I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

Thought Lady Blues Want Little Saw

Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry.

World Blues Nobody Being Who Avoid

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

World You Blues Will Guy Give

I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

Christine McVie

Blues Play More Anything Still Like

The blues singers were talking about everyday life, and they pushed a button.

Life Talking Blues Everyday Singers

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

Blues Sing Would Had

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