Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Cray

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Robert Cray.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Robert William Cray is an American blues guitarist and singer. He has led his own band and won five Grammy Awards.

American - Musician | Born: August 1, 1953

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Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

Robert Cray

A lot of bands would be aching to be in the position we are.

Robert Cray

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

Robert Cray

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

Robert Cray

I'm a one-woman man. Pretty much.

Robert Cray

I was pretty shy, not too outgoing.

Robert Cray

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

Robert Cray

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.

Robert Cray

I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

Robert Cray

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.

Robert Cray

Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors, who were trying to get back at the overseers. Blues is different for my generation.

Robert Cray

She was just another notch on my guitar.

Robert Cray

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.

Robert Cray

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

Robert Cray

I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.

Robert Cray

Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me.

Robert Cray