The Blues Quotes
I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
It was so easy living day by day Out of touch with the rhythm and blues But now I need a little give and take The New York Times, The Daily News.
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything
In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.
If you look at the other singers of Billie Holiday's time, they were really trying to entertain. They were trying to make people feel good. They were singing fast - and she was singing the blues.
I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.
Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues.
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.
Quizás aun no te comprenda. Pero, con un poco de tiempo, llegaré a entenderte. Y no habrá nadie en el mundo que te comprenda mejor que yo.
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC
And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.
We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head.
Es sind tausend Tropfenin einer Weltnur für uns gemachtTausend Tropfenwenn der Himmel weintund man dennoch lacht
I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and blues.
....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.
The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we’re bound.
You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?
The music plays . . . and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream.
Rats! It's rainy outside, And to be a good fellaInvite a smile so wideNobody needs umbrella!
We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.
The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The guitar’s strings purred with blues and ended with a haunting solitary song with no lyrics.
The guitar breathed. It inhaled and exhaled, and music filled the shop as the instrument picked the heartbreak of generations.
A real musician ain’t gonna choose his own guitar like an evil master choosing his slave. The guitar will choose his master and when he does, you’ll know it.
The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.
Moment by moment, in life's winter life frozeEchoing a history of blues, a milestone rose
Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?
To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit
Sometimes I ask myself how autumn smells? My answer: it's the smell of the autumn leaves firework and red wine.
Around this world will I be enough?From the liquor stores, to the train stop floors, your filthy room, your drama bluesI am nothing if I'm not with you.
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.
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.
The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust, ' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.
I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues. Sometimes I even want to feel the blues. Sometimes, you want to feel down.
The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.