Blues Harmonica Quotes

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.

If you can play the blues, you can do anything.

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.

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

My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.

I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson.

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

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.

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

Blues was made for the recessed.

I haven't lost my blues roots.

American blues can make you sad.

I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.