Otis Rush Quotes

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.

Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience.

1967 was the bleakest, darkest, most emotional period of my life.

But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

I'm always weeping at something or other.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!

I lived and languished.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

I had sadness for breakfast.

We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon.

With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing.

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.