Billy Gibbons Quotes

A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.

Blues was made for the recessed.

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

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.

Blues is a very physical music.

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.

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

This be an empty world without the blues.

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

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

Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

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

I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

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

I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love.

I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.

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

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

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.

My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it.

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.