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Blues Quotes

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

Thought Doing Back Blues First Club

I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.

Dimebag Darrell

Me Growing Up Texas Blues Growing

The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that.

Music People Song Thought You Blues

If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up.

You Blues Play Up Hang Well

Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.

Feel You Blues Nobody Tell Take

Depending on what you allow, you can still get the blues, man. I'm still trying to figure out where the blues really lies, where the street is.

Christian Scott

Man Trying You Blues Street Out

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

Mahalia Jackson

Rest You Blues Nothing Through Got

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.

Music God Down Blues Never Going

I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.

Music Soul Country Blues Jazz Made

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.

Age You Blues Jazz More Get

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

Gary Clark, Jr.

Black Blues Oppression Sound Rights

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

Sad Blues Songs Sad Songs Any

I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

Blue World You Blues Want Dogs

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.

Music Cats You Blues First Weak

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

Loved Blues Always John Janis Joplin

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

Polly Berrien Berends

Parenting Baby Blues More Out Panic

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

Blue You Blues Play Whatever Then

Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.

Soul Blues Rock Colorblind Became

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Me Blues Try Singer Going Just

It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well.

Music History Blues Know Chicago

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

Blues Jazz Classic Players Lot Sang

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

Opportunity Respect Chance Blues Got

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

Feel Easy Blues Play Hard

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

Influence Blues Through Nineties Had

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