Blues Quotes - page 17

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable. (Tom Waits)
I was into playing American music, especially the blues. View quote
Mark Knopfler
Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital. View quote
Keith Richards
I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined. View quote
Ritchie Blackmore
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body. View quote
Nick Cave
I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing. View quote
Nick Cave
I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything. View quote
Maya Angelou
But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places. View quote
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding. View quote
Willie Dixon
Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues. View quote
Willie Nelson
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues. (David Lynch)
I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. View quote
John Mayer
I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented. View quote
John Mayer
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute. View quote
Ian Anderson (musician)
'Cause I've got friends in low places Where the whiskey drowns And the beer chases my blues away. And I'll be okay. I'm not big on social graces; Think I'll slip on down to the oasis. Oh, I've got friends in low places. View quote
Garth Brooks
Many good things come from the left! [at the House of Blues on August 12th, 2008, while instructing the crowd to do a 'side-wave.']. View quote
KT Tunstall
Did you ever see an unhappy horse Did you ever see bird that had the blues One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. View quote
Dale Carnegie
I have to have music playing constantly. It creates the tone and mood for anything you are doing. I specifically love rock, and Jimi Hendrix is one of my favorite artists. My favorite song is 'Red House,' because it's heavy on the blues. View quote
Marisa Miller
I didn't try to be a soul singer, a jazz singer, a blues singer – no category...My music is my expression of what I feel and believe in a moment. View quote
Roberta Flack
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me. View quote
Cat Power
It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode, although the gloom, "the blues” which people go through occasionally and associate with the general hassle of everyday existence are of such prevalence that they do give many individuals a hint of the illness in its catastrophic form. (William Styron)
Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues. View quote
Jon Bon Jovi
The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph. View quote
Jack White
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black. View quote
Jack White
Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins. View quote
Jack White