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Blues Quotes

The Stones are rooted in the blues. When they are writing stuff, it has to do with the blues. We had a little more influences. There’s a lot of differences, and I love the Stones, but I’m with you. The Beatles were better.

– Paul McCartney

Interview with Howard Stern.

I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues.

– Georgia Holt

You don’t have to live the blues to play the blues.

– Herbie Mann

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now – not remotely.

– Henry Rollins

I’ve always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

– Harry Seidler

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It’s oppression.

– Gary Clark, Jr.

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

– Gary Clark, Jr.

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

– Haley Reinhart

In blues music, there’s a lot of borrowing, so it’s often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

– Henry Rollins

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

– Johnny Winter

I just like the blues better than rock ‘n’ roll.

– Johnny Winter

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that’s just not going to happen in my lifetime.

– John Mayer

Don’t waste your time away thinkin’ ’bout yesterday’s blues.

– Jon Bon Jovi

The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch.

– Jon Landau

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

– Justin Timberlake

My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties – Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records.

– Jimmy Page

If they played more blues, people would just get it – they try to hold it back but just about can’t hold it back now because the blues is really going.

– John Lee Hooker

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

– John Mayer

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don’t know if it’s a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

– Jeff Bridges

If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.

– Johnny Van Zant

From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone before – whether it was approaching the blues or folk music like ‘Babe I’m Gonna Leave You’: nothing existed like that.

– Jimmy Page

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

– Jimi Hendrix

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

– Janis Joplin

I believe in blues, and I believe that it’s been misrepresented.

– John Mayer

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

– John Lee Hooker

When I started workin’ with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin’ the blues.

– Johnny Winter

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter… and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.

– Johnny Winter

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

– Johnny Winter

You can go to Europe, and there’s no turnin’ back – any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don’t stop.

– John Lee Hooker

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

– Cyndi Lauper

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