Daniel Pearl Quotes

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

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

I'm a blues guy at heart, so silly music isn't generally what I do. I'm a I'll-cry-as-my-guitar-gently-weeps kind of guy.

Blues are the songs of despair.

This be an empty world without the blues.

A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.

Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the blues. You hear a rock n' roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues.

Blues was made for the recessed.

The blues is life itself.

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

I've cried over string arrangements.

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

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

I'm a sucker for emotionally exploitative cello.

The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing.

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.