Quotes About Music

Blues was made for the recessed.

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

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

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

Blues players are around for 50 years, and that's just fine.

I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.

Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.

I haven't lost my blues roots.

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

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

Because we grew up in Australia, to find information about a lot of blues guys, I used to go to the library and find the jazz magazines. They didn't even sell them at the time in news agents and stuff.

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

I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.

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

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.

I grew up listening to Patsy Cline. I was a huge Patsy Cline fan. I still am. Even though she's considered country, I think of her more as a blues singer. She's got a great blues voice, and she has such an amazing story, which I always loved.

I love jazz and blues, where there's a structure, but a lot of the cool stuff is veering off the page and playing.

Doo-wop was full of blues for me.

All jazz comes from blues. Blues first.

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