Top 1200 Delta Blues Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

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

If it ain't about what's real, what's happenin' right now, it ain't the blues.

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

Doo-wop was full of blues for me.

I play blues, sure, but don't call me a bluesman

I been studyin' the rain and I'm 'on drive my blues away.

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up.

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

Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.

One of the key things for me about Madame Walker's life is that she really does represent this first generation out of slavery when black people were reinventing themselves, and as a woman who was the first child in her family born free, she was trying to figure out a way, and she moved from Delta, Louisiana.

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

People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

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

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

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

Blues is the first step to get to jazz.

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.

British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.

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

You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.

The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing.

There was a great blues scene in Belfast during the late '60s.

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

There's always talk about the blues dying out, but it won't.

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

In my moments of down time I tend to listen to Blues.

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.

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

Ain't but one kind of blues and that consists of a male and female that's in love.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

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

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

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

The blues is not a plaything like some people think they are.

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

I love blues, mellow rock 'n' roll.

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right

Coming up in Chicago, we heard a lot of blues.

Blues has always been a huge part of my life.

It's good to see young kids getting into the blues.

I was singing the blues when I was six. Kind of sad, eh?

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

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

My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together.

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.