Blues Quotes

• Zeppelin were a blues band but also so much more, as were The Stones.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Band
  • Blues
  • Zeppelin

• If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Never
  • Blues
  • Equipment

• Carvin Jones is one of the brightest young stars on the blues scene today.

  

  Albert Collins
  • Today
  • Stars
  • Blues

• Well I wanna lay. I wanna lie down with my skinny blues.

  

  Jeremy Loops
  • Blues
  • Skinny
  • Wanna

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

  

  John William Cummings Ramones
  • Jazz
  • Blues
  • Chuck Berry

• But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

  

  Ruth Brown
  • Green
  • Now
  • Blues

• I’m sitting on top of the blues. I’m a bluesman who’s sitting on the top of my game, proud of what I do and proud of who I and thankful for people accepting me for what I am and who I am. I’m happy about what I’m doing and still enthused about what I’m doing. An I think we’ve got some good songs.

  

  Bobby Rush
  • Top
  • Be Proud
  • Good Songs

• Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • God
  • Truth
  • Rap

• Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.

  

  Albert Collins
  • Singing
  • Blues
  • Leaves

• Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do 'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

  

  Eddie Cochran
  • Cure
  • Blues
  • Summertime

• Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.

  

  Albert Collins
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Blues

• I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

  

  Etta James
  • Gospel
  • Blues
  • American Music

• I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Up
  • Music
  • American

• Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were way louder, heavier, and faster than the traditional blues that I was listening to.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • English
  • Artists
  • Clapton

• 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.

  

  John Graham Mellor The 101ers
  • Music
  • Rock And Roll
  • Buying

• I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Blues
  • I Loved

• Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues.

  

  Ingram Cecil Connor III The Byrds
  • Blues
  • Mornings
  • Evenings

• And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Heart
  • Sing
  • Broke

• Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them... So you have a right to sing the blues.

  

  Phil Rizzuto
  • White
  • Sing
  • Loyalties

• The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Inspiration
  • Relief
  • Trials

• The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Rock
  • Blues
  • Appealed

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

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Body
  • Floats
  • Musical cell

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

  

  Moira Kelly
  • Style
  • Blues
  • Mostly

• When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

  

  Chester Burnett
  • Money
  • Blues

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