Robert Quine Quotes

Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am.

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

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'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.

I haven't lost my blues roots.

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.

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.

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

The blues is life itself.

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

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

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.

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.

Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

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.

Skip James, for me, is the meaning of the blues.

American blues can make you sad.

I've always had a great love for the 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.

Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.

This be an empty world without the blues.

The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.

I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.