Top 1200 Blues Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

My first concert was Chicago and Moody Blues. I was 15 years old.

The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues

Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Orleans. And I'm really a jazz singer. I was impressed with Elvis - he was the handsomest guy I ever met in my life, and a very nice person, too. But the music doesn't impress me.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

The blues needs to be everything to you, otherwise it's not going to come across. That's what I think.

Texas Red is about the biggest blues hellraiser you'll ever meet.

Carvin Jones is one of the brightest young stars on the blues scene today

'Year Of The Tiger' definitely has much more of a blues-based vibe.

Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs

I love music, my followers love music, and I know LiveXLive is the ultimate home for the live music experience. We're going to bring great comedy and great music together like no one else is doing, and we'll have incredible access and resources to do it.

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

Basically we're a blues oriented rock 'n' roll band... easy to listen to.

I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that.

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.

I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything.

Music is the medium... how you use the music is different. Everyone use music to a positive light and effect. So it really depends on the individual and one's outlook. My music depicts life in general and the things that I see and the things that influence me, and such forth.

I've been playing electric guitar since I was 11, and I love the blues.

Music is a spiritual thing, you don't play with music. If you play with music you will die young. You see, because when the higher forces give you the gift of music...musicians hip, it must be well used for the gift of humanity.

I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.

Do anything you wanna do—but from [the heart]. Music is a thing from the heart, from the soul, just like anything else you do, man. And you can be the best, you can be what you wanna be. That’s right! You can do what you wanna do. I believe—I’m a blues player. I never been a millionaire, but let me tell you something—I think I am. Cause I got this. I’ve got what it take. And I don’t care if you don’t believe me, man, but I know you do. Because this is what it’s all about. Anything you do, if you wanna do it and you love it, you rich. You a millionaire, man.

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

They're great players. I'm not a Blues Traveler fan, though. I get it, but it's not for me.

If you've got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine.

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

That speci?c remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

I love the St. Louis Blues, it's the only team I openly root for.

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.

The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.

To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.

There are artists that are using computers in all genres - Kendrick Lamar's music is electronic-made, and Taylor Swift is the same thing. There's a lot of pop music, underground music, and music for films made with computers. In that sense, it's not going to go away.

I started to music when I was about 19 years old. Most people that do music, they get training, or they develop themselves before they let their music out. For myself, I was actually developing myself and putting my music out at the same time.

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.

Reggae music is a music of integrity; reggae's consciousness was built on a message. My music speaks of love, equality and spirituality, and I would hope that one finds this integrity in my music.

I've always loved the music... My favorite kind of music is Christmas music and the only thing I love better music is my wife and daughters. So, hanging out with my wife and daughters and cuddling them will be pretty cool.

There's an old blues refrain: I begged for water, you gave me gasoline.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

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

I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart.

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.

Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.

I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything you can think of except very modern music.

I've only dyed my hair blond once, after 'Varsity Blues.'

I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.

Blues purists may hate what I do sometimes because it's a little dirtier.

I was a virtuoso of all the folk-blues guitar styles by the time I reached 17.