Blues Quotes - page 8

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first. (Van Morrison)
Hearing the blues changed my life. View quote
Van Morrison
Yeah I'm gonna kill myself, Get a little headline news. I'd like to see what the papers say On the state of teenage blues. View quote
Elton John
And I guess that's why they call it the blues. Time on my hands could be time spent with you, Laughing like children, living like lovers, Rolling like thunder under the covers. And I guess that's why they call it the blues. View quote
Elton John
We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues. View quote
Anne Lamott
Song sung blue, everybody knows one. Song sung blue, every garden grows one.Me and you are subject to The blues now and then. But when you take the blues And make a song, You sing 'em out again. View quote
Neil Diamond
I am weary, having worked without a break all day; how beautiful it is here, to be sure, but how difficult to paint! I can see what I want to do quite clearly but I'm not there yet. It's so clear and pure in its pink and blues that the slightest misjudged stroke looks like a smudge of dirt... I have fourteen canvases underway. View quote
Claude Monet
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army. View quote
Elvis Presley
And as the moon rises he sits by his fire Thinking about women and glasses of beer. And closing his eyes as the dogies retire, He sings out a song which is soft but it's clear, As if maybe someone could hear.Goodnight you moonlight ladies. Rockabye sweet baby James. Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose. Won't you let me go down in my dreams? And rockabye sweet baby James. View quote
James Taylor
If ever I have a son in life, I'll call him in one day Sit him down upon my knee and here is what I'll say. You might lose your lover, people do sometime. Oh, but it won't make sense for you to sit around cryin'. Son, don't you know that when you fall in love, Sometimes, you're gonna have the blues. Well it may take years, but you're gonna shed some tears. 'Cause everybody's got to pay some dues, now, now. Everybody's got to pay some dues. View quote
Smokey Robinson
To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier. (Geezer Butler)
You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church. View quote
Art Blakey
They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss. View quote
Gillian Schieber Flynn
The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues. View quote
Mick Taylor
Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female. View quote
Mick Taylor
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed. View quote
Mick Taylor
It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself. View quote
Nick Hornby
The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink. View quote
Henry Rollins
I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies. View quote
Dane Cook
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. View quote
Adrian Mitchell
I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music. (Ben Harper)
Well, God is in His heaven And we all want what's his But power and greed and corruptible seed Seem to be all that there is I'm gazing out the window Of the St. James Hotel And I know no one can sing the blues Like Blind Willie McTell. View quote
Bob Dylan
Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles. View quote
Bob Dylan
Oh Mama, can this really be the end? To be stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again? View quote
Bob Dylan
I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock. View quote
Brad Paisley