The Blues Quotes

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Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

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.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

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

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

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.

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.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without words.

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.

When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.

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

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

Most good things come with the risk of something bad.

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.

Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

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

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

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

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

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.

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

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.

My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.

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

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

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.

Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.

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.

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.