Billy Gibbons Quotes

Blues was made for the recessed.

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

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

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

I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.

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.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

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

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.

You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.

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

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

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.

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

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

The blues is life itself.

But my big thing was always the blues.

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

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

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

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.

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.