Blues Song Quotes

When I play, maybe 'Back o' Town Blues,' I'm thinking about one of the old, low-down moments - when maybe your woman didn't treat you right. That's a hell of a moment when a woman tell you, 'I got another mule in my stall.'

When I was a kid this is what I was listening to on my car radio - Lowell Fulsom singing 'Tramp.'

If there is a blues song, it just goes in one ear and out the other. But other than that, if it stays with you and when we are all 90, we're going to look back at those songs, and it's going to be emotional. And when someone plays it, and you know it, and you're going to go, "I know that song and I love it."

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

He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.

Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

A song like 'When The Levee Breaks' has a very simple pattern, but it's hard to give it that feel that my dad gave it.

Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.

'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.