Quotes About Blues

I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson.

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

Blues purists may hate what I do sometimes because it's a little dirtier.

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

I just play blues for fun.

I love the blues, but I love a lot of music.

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

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

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

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.

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.