Blues Quotes
These are some of the best 'Blues' quotations and sayings.
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All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
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And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.
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Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
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As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.
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Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
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Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female.
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But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.
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But my big thing was always the blues.
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But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.
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Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.
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Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.
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Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.
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Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
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God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?
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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
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I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.
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