Blues Quotes - page 3

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer. (B. B. King)
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. View quote
B. B. King
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it. View quote
B. B. King
I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds. View quote
David Levithan
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, And sometimes the blues just get a hold of you. Just when you thought you had made it, All around the block people will talk. But I want to give it all that I've got. I just don't want, I don't want to waste it. View quote
Carole King
The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead. View quote
Langston Hughes
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. View quote
Denis Waitley
My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period. View quote
Tony Iommi
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. View quote
Mose Allison
Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood. View quote
Billy Gibbons
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece. (Bobby McFerrin)
I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life. View quote
Sammy Hagar
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man. View quote
Albert Murray
Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed. View quote
Alberta Hunter
I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember. View quote
Alex Chilton
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality. View quote
Alexis Korner
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society. View quote
Alexis Korner
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music. View quote
Aaron Neville
Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues. View quote
Al Jarreau
Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things. View quote
Big Bill Broonzy
The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music. (Bill Medley)
The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing. View quote
Bob Mould
I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice. View quote
Boz Scaggs
Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly. View quote
Brad Renfro
People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys. View quote
Brian Setzer