Top 1200 Blues Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

It ain't this big I, little You. Music is to be shared. Music is not a hustle. [Hip hop's become] cultural stripmining [by the major labels]. Some people get into this music to make a killing but music is a way to make a living.

Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, his music was my childhood, his music was my first love, his music was my failure, his music was my first kiss, my first love failure, my success... he is in my blood.

But my big thing was always the blues.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

The New Kids took some hits for, you know, not writing their own music. But on a songwriting standpoint, I mean, I'd never written music before when I was in the group, ... Now the music is my music, so it's kind of like my baby, and that was a whole different experience.

I was always a closet blues player.

My father did not bother that I play not a classical music. He always congratulated me for my development in music, I mean in any music but, he hang on to continue training at the Academy of Music... however, I never mentioned to my teachers that I trained myself at weekends in clubs.

This be an empty world without the blues.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Doo-wop was full of blues for me.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

American blues can make you sad.

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.

The blues ain't nothin' but a botheration on your mind.

I used to be a great blues singer.

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

The blues is a low down achin' chill.

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

I can see myself retiring from rapping, but I don't think from music. After that, I think I'd just go into some other kind of music, 'cuz I'm a worldwide fan of music, all types of music, all cultures, so I'll always be involved.

I've always had a great love for the blues.

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.

The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.

Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.

The more people are listening to music and experiencing it, the more value for both the music companies and the artist, especially when their financial model is built around that . With the music industry, everybody is starting to understand that doesn't begin with a piece of music.

Wild women don't get the blues.

I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

I just play blues for fun.

Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense. And he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness and good humor of this country.

I was into Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, the blues.

My basic grammar is in Indian classical music, Carnatic music, and Hindustani music, but I don't believe that that is the only form of music I will learn. I don't believe in that, because I am a very open minded person.

When I was in London I found house music and techno, and I love that s - t. It's my go-to music. It's the closest for me to the old funk of James Brown and the repetitive dance music that I like from the soul music. I'd love to do a live album, like a little bit old school but still progressive, influenced maybe by more electronic music. I like everything, but I don't know anything about music. So it comes in to a lot of different ingredients.

I've got the blues in my heart, and the devil in my fingers.

I'm not a musician, I can't read music, but I came from a family of music fans. Not mad music fans, but people who like music. Both of my parents can play the piano. They were very good dancers, which I am not.

The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits

The blues has been in my life since I was little.

Blues is the first step to get to jazz.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

You're a master on blues piano. The real deal.

All blues singers are great liars.

My writing ability all stems from the blues.

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

I was growing up in a communist time, especially, and the other music, the western music, was banned, so on radio half of the music was Chopin. So my colleagues and I were a little bit allergic to this music because it was everywhere - everywhere!

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

If you only get one song, it has to be Bullfrog Blues

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

To be able to wake up and know I get to do music every single day - arrange music, compose music, write music and to be with my four best friends in the world, and just to go and do performances and to tour, it's honestly a dream come true.

Creating music to fit the marketplace, so that music can be heard? If ever I thought that I even came close to catering to the marketplace, or designing my productions and my music to cater to what is currently fashionable, I would sell shoes for a living. For me, the marketplace can rot in hell. I will do music for the love of music and for the love of people who listen to music, and absolutely nothing else will drive me.

The blues - it's kind of like a religion, really.

[The blues] is the antidote for sadness and depression.

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much

The blues have hope wrapped inside them.

I was interested in a whole range of music that I used to play, popular music -- particularly American music -- that I heard a lot of when I was a teenager," "I think at a certain point it dawned on me that myself playing this music wasn't very convincing. It was more convincing when we played music that came from our own stock of tradition. ... I certainly feel a lot more comfortable playing so-called Celtic music.

I need you like the blues needs the pain.