Quotes About Blues

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

Here, in the US, people like our music because it's very similar to blues. It's the same thing in Europe. Everyone listens to blues and rock, it's universal. Everyone dances.

I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself…In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues.

I got them voodoo blues, Them evil hoo-doo blues. Petro Loa won't leave me alone; Every night I hear the zombies moan. Lord, I got them mean ol' voodoo blues. Zu-Zu was a mambo, she loved a hungan man; Messin' with Erzuli wasn't part of her plan. The spell of the tom-tom turned her into a slave, And now Baron Samedi's dancin' on her grave. Yeah, she's got them voodoo blues, Them bad ol' hoo-doo blues … When

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The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

who like the taste of being hurt. That makes you lower than the mice and the roaches. At least they try to save their skins, they got a normal outlook. But you, you're just a clown that ain't funny. And that's a sad picture, that's the saddest picture of all. Like on the outside it's the stupid crazy smile and inside it's a gloomy place where all they play is the blues. He frowned.

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.

Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

Laughter is a medicine you've got to use to drive away blues.

The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me.

I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.

The blues aren't pessimistic. We're prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.

Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.