Blues Quotes - page 9

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy. (Jack Nicholson)
Blues. An American dance stemming from the Foxtrot, the speed of which it reduced and into which it brought a deliberately contrived dismal atmosphere. When Blues are sung their words seem to aim at attaining to the utmost depths of gloom and inanity. View quote
Eric Blom
Hey, get rhythm when you get the blues. Hey, get rhythm when you get the blues. Yes a jumpy rhythm makes you feel so fine. It'll shake all the trouble from your worried mind. Get rhythm when you get the blues. View quote
Johnny Cash
Just around the corner there's heartache Down the street that losers use. If you can wade in through the teardrops, You'll find me at the Home of the Blues. View quote
Johnny Cash
I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say. View quote
Justin Timberlake
I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues. View quote
Hoagy Carmichael
I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues. View quote
Dinah Shore
I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist. View quote
Eric Clapton
It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music. View quote
Eric Clapton
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues. View quote
Eric Clapton
If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go. (Eric Clapton)
I had a Les Paul before Eric but I didn't have a Marshall. And when Eric got all of that together he was a delight to listen to. He really understood the blues. View quote
Eric Clapton
I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it. View quote
Morgan Freeman
Something happened when I got pregnant, and I'm not able to listen to that kind of music as much. I feel like I'm going nuts when I listen to it. I used to listen to Dead Kennedys, Circle Jerks, PiL, Butthole Surfers. But today, I can't. I love Alanis Morissette, Emmylou Harris' latest album, and all sorts of jazz and blues. If I want to hear something heavy duty, I'll put on the Foo Fighters or a good rocking Rolling Stones song. But that's as intense as I've got. View quote
Gillian Anderson
I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae. View quote
Jerry Hall
Let's dance - put on your red shoes and dance the blues. Let's dance - to the song they're playin' on the radio. Let's sway - while colour lights up your face. Let's swa -, sway through the crowd to an empty space. View quote
David Bowie
If you can play the blues, you can do anything. View quote
Ray Charles
I found a liquid cure for my landlocked blues. View quote
Conor Oberst
At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
Music's playin' up and down the block Mostly Christian, Blues, Country, Folk, and Southern Rock It's our little piece of paradise way out here in the woods There is always somethin' goin' on down in the trailerhood. View quote
Toby Keith
She's got the grownup blues Tight dresses and lipstick She's sportin' high-heeled shoes Oh but tomorrow morning She'll have to change her trend And be sweet sixteen And back in class again. (Chuck Berry)
You know, my temperature's risin' and the jukebox blows a fuse My heart's beatin' rhythm and my soul keeps on singin' the blues Roll Over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news. View quote
Chuck Berry
See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
Live At The House Of Blues (with Outlawz, Dogg Pound, Snoop Dogg, K-Ci & JoJo) (2005) View quote
Tupac Shakur