Blues Quotes - page 13

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening. (Etta James)
I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers. View quote
Eddie Floyd
Ive always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix. View quote
Eddie Money
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. View quote
Edgar Winter
I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz. View quote
Edgar Winter
So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart. View quote
Edgar Winter
I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm into rock n' roll, like Jimi Hendrix. Not so much because of my parents, who used to play a lot of Nina Simone and older blues, but my brother and sister. View quote
Georgia May Jagger
I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base. View quote
Greg Lake
I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that. View quote
Gary Allan
When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs. View quote
Gary Clark, Jr.
I just play blues for fun. (Howlin' Wolf)
My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences. View quote
Haley Reinhart
When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's gone. And how bad life is and all that. Why can't it be something happy with the blues Why can't it have a hip-hop beat to which you can do the dances of today. View quote
Ike Turner
So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music. View quote
James Young
I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists. View quote
Jill Scott
If I feel really ugly or unhappy, sometimes I'll choose bright colors so they'll make me feel good. Yellows, pinks, light blues and orange. I just want to feel good all the time if I can. And colors and hairstyles and all that kind of helps out. View quote
Jill Scott
There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it. View quote
Jimmy Rushing
If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record. View quote
Jimmy Rushing
The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing. View quote
Jimmy Rushing
The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning. View quote
John Lee Hooker
The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it. (John Lee Hooker)
Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it. View quote
John Lee Hooker
I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues. View quote
John Lee Hooker
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different. View quote
John Lee Hooker
If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going. View quote
John Lee Hooker