Quotes About Blues

John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

When you ain't got no money, you got the blues.

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

People should hear the pure blues - the # blues we used to have when we had no money.

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.

Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

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.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.

My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.