Quotes About Blues

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.

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'm very fortunate that I really like acting, but it's not all I want to do. I love to sing. I love blues. I love jazz.

Doo-wop was full of blues for me.

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

Listen to really old blues guys and how they weren't allowed to sing about what they meant; they alluded to things. I find that style amusing, and I think it's a little harder to write.

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

I was just fascinated by the blues.

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

If I am going to shine in any arena, it is going to be blues and soul.

Being raise in England, we were all raised on blues and country.

I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.

'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.

My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old.

The old-timers schooled me good. They brainwashed me to respect music, whether we were playing rockabilly or blues or rock and roll.

When I picked up my guitar, I spent the first day learning the chord E, the second day A, then B7, and all of a sudden, I could play the blues.

I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love.

My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music.

I had just discovered jazz, and I started singing in a kind of blues cover band at the age of 15. We called ourselves - it was a terrible name - the Blue Zoots. We couldn't actually get our hands on zoot suits, nor did we dress in blue. We did covers of Screamin' Jay Hawkins and kind of Blues Brothers repertoire stuff.

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again the next day. And sometimes you get the blues.

I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'