Top 1200 Blues Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

You don't need the frills and thrills to make something amazing. I think that's what inspires me with the blues.

Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites.

Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar in my music, I think that it is a feminine instrument, so when I do not sing, the music expresses my voice.

Joseph Zawinul and Toots Thielmans, in my opinion, are the only Europeans who can play rhythm-and-blues.

There are only three white blues singers -- Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is.

The blues will be blue, and the jealousies green, but when love picks its color it demands to be seen.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

The last thing that the blues needs is another smart-ass white boy with an attitude.

I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.

I had to shoot shotguns for The Blues Brothers. But I don't like that stuff. Too butch for me.

If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.

Music was a big thing for me growing up and Scorsese and Tarantino both use music brilliantly in movies. They're probably two of the best at using music.

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.

I am very excited to be here in Wales and look forward to putting on the Cardiff Blues shirt.

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us.

Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they're doing - and don't take music for granted.

Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.

One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.

My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.

I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.

My guitar is my torch, my soul carries the flame. Make no mistake, I'm a true blues man.

I really want to concentrate of the blues again and do it properly, which is something I feel I didn't do before.

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.

Reggae music is simple music - but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, the people will be drawn to it.

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

I am the princess of G.O.O.D. Music, the first lady of G.O.O.D. Music, the baby of G.O.O.D. Music. I'm kinda the spoiled brat right now. I could get whatever I want.

I'm not saying you can't be successful in the music industry without Spotify. But when I look at the future of music, I don't think scarcity is the model anymore. We have to embrace ubiquity - that music is everywhere.

I've always loved music. I've worked on music and written music, but, it wasn't until I was actually on the road full time with WWE that I put my first album out.

I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music.

A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires.

Music is the basis of the whole creation. In reality the whole of creation is music, and what we call music is simply a miniature of the original music, which is creation itself, expressed in tone and rhythm.

Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

My musical roots and inspiration lie not in rock n' roll or metal music, but first and foremost in classical music, balalaika, and in underground house music.

Ive always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in the music. In jazz, everyone's improvising, and everyone's creating at the same time.