Blues Performance Quotes

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

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

Johnny Winter doesn't know the word 'subtlety.' But it works, it works.

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.

You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will be different every time.

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

They just said, 'Roll the tape.' No rehearsal or nothing... Muddy [Waters] didn't come in and say 'I wanna rehearse.' He used to look at me and say 'Let's just play the blues. That's all you need to do.

Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.

What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.

I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.

It's good to see young kids getting into the blues.

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female.