Brownie McGhee Quotes

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.

A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

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

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

The blues is life itself.

From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how I approached classical music. I'm sure of it.

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

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.

But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.

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

I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.

I was a born rock n' roll sax player.

Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in Little Richard and Chuck Berry.

I wanted to play blues. But I wasn't blue enough. I wasn't like Muddy Waters, people who really had it hard. In our house, we had food on the table. We were doing well compared to many. So I concentrated on this fun and frolic, these novelties.

Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music.

The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.

I love soul music.

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

I was just fascinated by the blues.