Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Sonny Terry

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Sonny Terry.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Saunders Terrell, known as Sonny Terry, was an American Piedmont blues and folk musician, who was known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers and occasionally imitations of trains and fox hunts.

American - Musician | October 24, 1911 - March 11, 1986

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You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

Sonny Terry

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

Sonny Terry

So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.

Sonny Terry

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

Sonny Terry

If talk was money, you'd be a millionaire. If thoughts could kill, there'd be no one here.

Sonny Terry