Quotes About Blues

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

All music is the blues. All of it.

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.

What about a blues in W, in the key of W.

See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play.

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues

When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.