Blues Quotes

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in fu...

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrop...

The blues is relevant today because when we look down through the corridors of time, the black Ameri...

You might say that the universe plays the blues.

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called...

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat ...

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be intro...

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous ...

...I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds...

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my s...

The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much ...

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this o...

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll o...

You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the sa...

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone ...

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days...

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so...

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to...

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat ...

John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is w...

The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural resp...

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of...