Top 1200 Blues Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I was part of that whole early Moody Blues transitioning from a sort of R&B-blues band to being more progressive.

I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta.

We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.

All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.

I'm not committed to putting myself up for a blues guitarist, even though I love playing the blues.

Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply into American blues, gospel, folk hymnody, and hill country dance music. To that gumbo, he added the invigorating rhythms and harmonies of hot jazz. It was a new kind of American music, named in honor of his band The Blue Grass Boys to be known, simply, as bluegrass.

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.

If you're going to get into music, you've got to learn the 12-bar blues.

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music.

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.

One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn't wavered since the '50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music.

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.

Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.

Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music.

The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out, and people weren't diggin' the blues as much.

I kept playing blues-based music all during the 1980s, and it was tough.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

The Moody Blues was very big in France, because they liked that we were basically playing blues.

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.

I want to sing using a throatsinging style, like for example kargyraa, but at the same time sing it like a normal way. Maybe I will try some opera. To sing a melody, and to sing not only Tuvan traditional melodies, but I would like to try Western classics, blues. I think Tuvan music and American blues are very close to each other.

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original. ... I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ... I don't need time, I need a deadline. ...There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. ... Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.

From the first album, we've had songs like 'The Jack' that are blues based. We also did it in 'Ride On,' where we went into the blues.

I really don't. I have truly eclectic taste in music and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; World Music, Brit-pop, Classic Rock, Blues/Jazz, even the odd bit of Heavy metal.

When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don't really have the blues, but I can appreciate the honesty and the simplicity of it.

I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.

Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is because what I do - the wellspring of art, or what I do - l get from the blues. So I listen to the music of a particular period that I'm working on, and I think inside the music is clues to what is happening with the people.

Blues purists never cared for me. I don't worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made 'Three O' Clock Blues,' they were not there. The people out there made the tune. And blues purists just wrote about it. The people is who I'm trying to satisfy.

People should hear the pure blues - the #? blues we used to have when we had no money.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

I have been influenced by music. I grew up listening to blues, jazz and all.

In terms of exploring an identity in the country music world, what I realized very quickly was that there are people who have been performing country music since they were kids. It's very much a part of who they are; very much that jazz and blues are a part of who I am, because I grew up listening to and playing that kind of music.

Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.

There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light bill and I couldn't pay my rent and I really had the blues. But today I can pay my rent and I can pay the light bill and I still got the blues. So I must been born with 'em... That's my religion - the blues is my religion.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

I can sing the blues and I have sung the blues. I feel it internally when I'm singing.

I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if it sounds good it does.

The blues? Why, the blues are a part of me. They're like a chant. The blues are like spirituals, almost sacred. When we sing blues, we're singing out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues. When I sing, 'I walk the floor, wring my hands and cry -- Yes, I walk the floor, wring my hands and cry,'... what I'm doing is letting my soul out.

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.

My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.