Blues Quotes

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. (Jimi Hendrix)
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. View quote
Duke Ellington
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it. View quote
Ray Charles
Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help. View quote
Mahalia Jackson
The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day. View quote
W. C. Handy
The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life. View quote
Eric Clapton
Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling. View quote
Carlos Santana
As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with. View quote
Boz Scaggs
I still like to play the blues more than anything else. View quote
Christine McVie
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture. View quote
Etta James
I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band. (Greg Ginn)
Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues. View quote
Luther Allison
But my big thing was always the blues. View quote
Luther Allison
I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues. View quote
Luther Allison
Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues. View quote
Muddy Waters
I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory. View quote
Muddy Waters
There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money. View quote
Muddy Waters
Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently. View quote
Otis Rush
I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues. View quote
Otis Rush
A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues. View quote
Otis Rush
Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right. (Otis Rush)
Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins. View quote
Peter Tork
The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together. View quote
Peter Tork
It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night. View quote
Peter Tork
There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer. View quote
Rick Derringer