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Blues Quotes

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

Thought Better Blues Turn Going

Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.

Blues Songs Most Played

When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering.

Myself People Wolf Find Blues Never

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

Family Me Blues Jazz Left Away

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

King Me Blues Three First Real

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

American Blues Development Movement

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.

Time Find Blues Done Need Things

There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times.

Good College Good Times Blues Stage

We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music.

Music Simple People Blues Way Try

I liked the 12-bar blues because everybody could play it, but they could also play it their own way, and they could express their own emotions using that as a structure.

Blues Emotions Play Way Structure

Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues guitarist.

Great Me Blues Right Understood He

If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might be black-ish.

Laurence Fishburne

Rock And Roll You Blues Jazz Rock

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

Career Blues Play Kid Who Began

When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

Music You Down Blues Rock Real

I am very excited to be here in Wales and look forward to putting on the Cardiff Blues shirt.

I Am Forward Look Blues Shirt Here

Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight.

Man I Am King Think Country Blues

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.

Blue People Find Blues Two People

The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.

Best Behavior Blues Human Behavior

To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy now.'

Dimebag Darrell

Me Saying Feel Blues Play Sitting

The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.

Place Blues Where Been Interested

My grandfather is a blues musician.

Blues Grandfather Musician

I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.

Blues Always Acoustic Bob Dylan Bob

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

Treat You Blues Will Still Course

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

Mahalia Jackson

Singing Deep Help Blues Yelling Pit

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