Howlin' Wolf Quotes

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

I got into the guitar at a young age, and it's a big part of what I like to do during my down time.

Y'know, smile, dance, get crazy... we sure do while we're making it, because music is our leeezshure; it's my fun.

I have this guitar on which I occasionally kill time making up rock n' roll lyrics.

I've been playing electric guitar since I was 11, and I love the blues.

Blues has always been a huge part of my life.

I just love a great groove.

If you're going to get into music, you've got to learn the 12-bar blues.

I love wasting time and learning to lip-sync to songs; it's a silly hobby of mine.

I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.

Blues was made for the recessed.

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

But my big thing was always the blues.

I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.

All I do is sit at home and play guitar. That's seriously what I do.

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.

Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.

Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.

For me, personally, I really get a kick out of game shows. I like the play-along factor.

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing and air guitaring with a broom to 'You Should Be Dancing.'

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.