"Blues Music" Quotes . Top 32 Short Quotes About "Blues Music"

"You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues."

--- Al Jarreau

#Music #Jazz #Blues Music

"Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners."

--- Alan Freed

#Music #Rocks #Swings

"We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist."

--- Alan Price

#Zeal #Attempting #Aggravating

"Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music."

--- Albert Collins

#Play #Music Is #Blues Music

"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."

--- Albert Einstein

#Music #Driving #Intuition

"The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me."

--- Alberta Hunter

#Play #Blues Music #Knows

"Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance."

--- Wynton Marsalis

#Absolutes #Struggle #Blues Music

"Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements."

--- Wynton Marsalis

#Social #Absolutes #Broken

"I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed."

--- B. B. King

#Music #Said #Blues Music

"We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so."

--- B. B. King

#Music #Care #Play

"The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever."

--- B. B. King

#People #Feels #Blues Music

"The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues."

--- Willie Dixon

#Mean #Music #American Music

"The whole of life itself expresses the blues. That's why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling and understanding. The blues can be about anything pertaining to the facts of life. The blues call on God as much as a spiritual song do."

--- Willie Dixon

#Jazz And Blues #Blues Music #Facts

"I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something."

--- William Eggleston

#Blues Music #Streets #Facts

"Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things."

--- Big Bill Broonzy

#People #Lawyer #Blues Music

"My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well-known blues musicians."

--- Walter Becker

#People #Known #Jazz

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

--- Billy Gibbons

#Music #Blues Music #Sound

"He not busy being born is busy dying."

--- Bob Dylan

#Music #Life #Born

"Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people."

--- Brownie McGhee

#People #Blues Music #Folks

"Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard."

--- Bruce Springsteen

#Heard #Music Is #Blues Music

"They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me!"

--- Buddy Guy

#Sweet #Spread #Way

"Blues musicians don't retire. They drop."

--- Buddy Guy

#Retiring #Blues Music #Musician

"Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'"

--- Buddy Guy

#Said #Hotel #Play

"The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing."

--- Buddy Guy

#Jazz And Blues #Jazz #Blues Music

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."