Blues Quotes
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.
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A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.
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I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music.
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British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.
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I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.
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Blues is life, you know? An appreciation for the depth of life and the fact that hard times strengthen you and make you ready - blues, a lot of times, is about the loss of love.
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I've always had a great love for the blues.
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People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.
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Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Little Richard and Etta James all play the same venues. It was a mix of funk, soul, blues and rock 'n' roll.
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What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.
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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.
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See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
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What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote anything.
