Blues Genre Quotes

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.

There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits

I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.

Blues is a very physical music.

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

I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

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.

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?

I've always had a great love for the blues.

Blues is the first step to get to jazz.

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

I've been playing electric guitar since I was 11, and I love the blues.

Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.

I grew up listening to blues and rock n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.

My grandfather is a blues musician.

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

I love blues, mellow rock 'n' roll.