Best Blues Music Quotes

"The blues ain't nothing but a personal narrative of a catastrophe lyrically expressed."

"Stevie Ray Vaughan is the superstar, he's the man who puts blues back on the map."

"Robert Johnson died in 1938, but it wasn't until a couple of decades later when his work was reissued that he finally achieved the fame he supposedly sold his soul for."

"The only person who can defeat Trump at this point is Trump."

"Blues is a good man feeling bad but it's also good good feelings as well."

"Eric Clapton is, by common consent, the greatest living exponent of the electric guitar."

"Eric became driven to master the music he heard from the states, from the likes of blues man Big Bill Broonzy."

"Hey y'all. This one's called Missing File Blues."

"Blues is a choice, a choice to fight, choice to love, choice to fight for justice."

"Clarksdale has produced more famous blues stars per capita than anywhere else on the planet."

"The blues, to most of us blacks, is a feeling. It comes out of suffering."

"So I gave it all up and I formed a blues band called The Blues Agency with another singer and I played Blues for a while and that was really like medicine to me."

"I've played for many years in a really traditional blues context."

"Everybody found something different, you know, and I think that's one of the most interesting things and most frustrating things about Blues today for me."

"if you're feeling trapped like a queen no blunders only sacrifice and see whales you may have the Blues never be a chicken when you lose"

"In that area surrounding University, there were 50, 60, 70 blues bars, all with a band. There was blues being played by the best of the players, and it was there in Hyde Park that Paul Butterfield was born and raised."

"Paul's band, that first album, that really took off, that opened the market up a lot to a lot of young white kids who hadn't really heard the blues."

"It's an honor for the world to know and feel the blues."

"If it keeps on raining, the levee's gonna break."

"All last night sat on the levee and moaned, thinking about my baby and my happy home."

"When the levee breaks, you got to move."

"The UK's most exciting blues guitar player."

"That garnered him into the British Blues Hall of Fame."

"BB King, well regarded as one of the biggest Blues guys ever."

"That's how singers in blues phrase their vocals; they sing the same line twice and then they sing an answering line."

"That's such a commonly used lick that's played in just about every blues song."

"Through his powerful performances and deep commitment to the blues, Gallagher definitely left an indelible mark on popular music."

"Throw in the dominant seven just to blues it up a little bit, it gives a little more soul."

"You hear that in the blues all the time, you're hammering on to the third interval in the chord."

"If you're playing this version of Crossroads at jam night or with your mates in a band, then always use the quick four under the vocals."

"To express the runaway outlaws using the blues as its weapon against the world."

"Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins doesn't just sing the blues, he is the blues."

"The blues cover them all, the blues calls the name of God as much in the Blues as you do in spiritual songs."

"The blues are the True Facts of Life whether it's good, bad, right or wrong or anywhere in between."

"The blues are the roots of All American Music."

"The blues are the truth and the blues are The Facts of Life."

"The blues for me is that kind of freedom of just be yourself."

"It's called Stormy Monday and it's about, well, a really lousy Monday, and we all know what that's like."

"A blues typically consists of 12 measures and can change a lot; there's a lot of variability in the Blues form."

"The blues is one of the most expressive styles of music out there, and it is essential learning for any guitar player."

"In New York City, if you don't find the blues, it'll find you."

"Trouble in mind, I'm so blue, I won't be blue always, the sun's gonna shine on my back door someday."

"To me, the title of this story kind of has two meanings because we have Sonny's blues as in Sonny is sad, he's got the blues, but then also even in terms of music, the blues music."

"All blues, you don't choose, you are chosen."

"It's a great way to start a blues by the way if you're not sure how to start, especially slow blues."

"You always find your way home, this is what these blues are for me."

"The Blues addresses more specifically the meanings of American life."

"It was like I suppose being that age and being exposed to something like the blues, there's this element of purity within that type of music that spoke to someone completely unbiased by the way the world, by music, it's so pure, it's so intentional, so truthful."

"The clash between the major third and minor seventh is the essence of blues music."

"That's what we do as blues players."

"I understand blues music, you know, it's wonderful, a story over people's disenfranchisement."

"I love Stevie Ray Vaughan, he's my favorite blues player."

"The sound of the Blues is this tension and interplay between a minor third and a major third."

"You could literally play a 12 Bar Blues just with this little double stop."

"Any discussion of blues guitar would be woefully incomplete if we didn't talk about the one and only Albert King."

"Crying baby, honey, don't you want to go back to the land of California, my sweet home Chicago?"

"Albert King, man, one of the meanest, toughest, loudest, harshest guitar sounds of any of those legendary blues players."

"He said, 'Alright then, I want you to come back stage after this set, and we're gonna talk about playing the blues.'"

"Blues is a source of freedom, emancipation, and a metaphysical music."

"Make no mistake, Blues ultimately is life-affirming and optimistic."