Big Bill Broonzy Quotes

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

The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

The blues is life itself.

That's what I like about Frank Ocean or Bon Iver - they try to capture a feeling in the most sincere way.

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.

A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.

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

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

Green Day is a band that you always felt had something to say, whether it was about the times or love or heartache.

I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.

Russian work songs can make you suffer.

No matter what you got, the blues is there

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.

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

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side.

Blues is like American Express. I don't leave home without it.

The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.

If you can play the blues, you can do anything.