Quotes About Blues

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

I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you.

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.

You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.

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

When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complained, we just never thought of putting it to music.

the use of "the blues" as a term for feeling down came from a Native American tribe in the south who would cover their bodies with a blue dye when they were in mourning. Slaves in the area saw the practice and coined the term "feeling blue.

He could laugh, though, and there was no bluesman who ever lived who didn't know how to laugh at the craziness of life.

Sing it like the midnight wind, Sing it like a prayer; Sing it on to the way to hell, Them blues'll take you there. —Oren Morse, Dead Man's Song

También me gusta mucho Lucinda Williams cuando canta "Born to be Loved", casi un blues sobre el orgullo: "No naciste para que abusaran de ti, para perder / para sufrir, para nada. / Naciste para que te quieran". EVM

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.

I am and always will be a blues guitarist

My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it.

In terms of scale or stature, I believe that if Robert Johnson was reincarnated, he is probably BB King. Maybe it would be worth investigating the appropriate dates to see if this is even a remote possibility.

The gradual increase in popularity of the Mersey sound forced musicians like me to almost go underground, as if we were anarchists, plotting to overthrow the music establishment. It seemed that the "trad jazz" movement was dying, and was taking folk and blues with it.

My father always swore that jazz, like the blues, was born in the muddy water of the Mississippi. My mother swore that it came from the bottle, like all the devil's best work.

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.