Top 1200 Blues Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

All the great shows owe a lot to 'Hill Street Blues.'

I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.

I lived in the Caribbean when I was a teenager, so I learned about Salsa and Cha-Cha and all these Latin Afro-Cuban music like Gillespie and Duke Ellington, also bridged with Jazz. But my mother is Greek, and so I've also listened a lot to Greek music. And through the years to Balcanic music to Arabic music because my father loved music from Egypt.

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.

So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.

I've always identified people's taste in music as being kind of hetero and/or homo - there's music people like because they feel like they have aesthetic similarity to it and the music they wish to create, and then there's music that represents the other, that they listen to because it represents an escape from the music that they have to make.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try to bring into my own music. Bringing in other musicians to collaborate with is a good way for me to test out new ways or make music that I might have not discovered on my own.

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.

Being raise in England, we were all raised on blues and country.

Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in apartment buildings people had to come up with a schedule - you practice at 5 p.m., I'll practice at 6 p.m. That way the music didn't collide with one another.

Laughter is a medicine you've got to use to drive away blues.

It's so satisfying as a guitar player to play stuff that's related to the blues.

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.

I'd do the blues all the time if I could, that's what I'm into. But people just don't like to hear it.

I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.

When I make the music that I make, when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all. It's just like when I do rap music or whatever style of music I do, I have to engulf the character I do and bring that to life.

I would never get into the music industry per se, but listening to music really helps me to concentrate. It's just a nice way for me to vibe and chill. There's music for when you're sad or happy or in love; there's music for every moment in life.

A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain kind of music that I start hearing. It's the music of the language, but it's also the music of the story. I have to live with that music for a while before I can put any words on the page. I think that's because I have to get my body as much as my mind accustomed to the music of writing that particular book. It really is a mysterious feeling.

Music TV in the U.K. is disappearing. 'Top Of The Pops,' 'CD:UK' and shows like that have gone, and it's bringing down the music industry. We should do as much as we can to keep our music TV and producers need to be more willing to accommodate live music.

I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.

Blues players are around for 50 years, and that's just fine.

An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.

I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. I'm also a blues geek.

My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I found more jazz on the radio, and began looking for records. My paper route money, and later, money I earned working after school in a print shop and a butcher shop went toward buying jazz records. I taught myself the alto saxophone and the drums in order to play in my high school dance band.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.

It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.

Blues is like American Express. I don't leave home without it.

I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed.

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life. Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time. No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.

House of Blues has soul right down to the chef in the kitchen.

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.

Well, I am not sure of when my album will be released but my music has a lot of different sounds. I'm a hip-hop/R&B girl at heart, but I love pop music as well, and I even have an affinity for country music. So I would say my music might have something for everyone.

I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

The musical flags of the world should fly at half mast because truly one of the greatest guitarists in the world and king of the blues has died. I have cherished him and so has the rest of the world who knew him and loved him for his entire career. As we pain, we must celebrate that his music, his style of playing and singing will last forever, from the recordings that he has done and the influence that he has had and will have on guitarists all over this planet. Long live the spirit of B.B. King.

It's weird. I went so far away from music that I had to re-invent music again. I had to come back to music. I had to put music with an agenda down and at least write for my son, write to keep writing, but the idea of having a music career had to go away for a while.

I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I just don't see it as an idiomatic thing any more...To me, if jazz is anything, it's a process, and maybe a verb, but it's not a thing. It's a form that demands that you bring to it things athat are valuable to you, that are personal to you. That, for me, is a pretty serious distinction that doesn't have anything to do with blues, or swing, or any of these other things that tend to be listed as essentials in order for music to be jazz with a capital J.

I think people assume that whatever kind of music you make is the music you listen to. Don't get me wrong, I listen to tons of pop music and all the music that really inspires Best Coast is very straightforward '50s and '60s pop music, but I've been listening to R&B and rap since I was a kid. I grew up in L.A. It's part of the culture. I listen to anything.

What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.

They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.

'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.

Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do 'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

I cross-dressed as the judge in 'Hill Street Blues,' you know.

Regarding gay and music, I don't actually think my music is particularly gay at all, because my music doesn't have sex with men. My music does not have a gender, I don't see it as being gay.

Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.

What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage.

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.

Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.