Blues Music Quotes

Blues Music Quote of the day

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

If you don't live it, you don't believe it.

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues

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.

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

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

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

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

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC

....Charles laughingly observed, 'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.