Blues Lyrics Quotes

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

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

The music that I first fell in love with was American music, really. Nothing against British acts - I love them and will forever - but on the whole, it was the art of American storytelling in the kind of folk and blues lyrics that, if you scratch a little bit, there's a heartbreaking story there.

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

I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

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

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.

I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me.

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

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.

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

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

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.

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

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

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.

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.

This be an empty world without the blues.

'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.

I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.

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

The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.