Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have musicians from as far away as Ontario and Seattle traveling all the way to Greenville to be a part of our first blues festival - this is exciting.

Larry Groce

There is no question that he is one of the most dynamic performers we've had. We will give him as much time as we can and really let him stretch out. At this point it is Buddy Guy and B.B. King who are the greatest blues men alive.

We found her singing at a blues bar, ... where she was waitressing.

We're pleased to say that Bryce's career as a member of the St. Louis Blues will continue for several more years,

For her to call us and cry the blues to us, you know, about how she's feeling and stuff.

This is the longest-running continuous blues show in Maine. They really want to play here.

There's an incredibly rich rhythm- and-blues and blues tradition in Detroit.

It's a rubric of fast hardcore and random old blues stuff, like Lemon Jefferson and all these old blues guys. Also old power trios like Mountain and Cream.

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

It was a win but that's about all I can say. I don't know if we had some spring break blues or what, but it seemed like we weren't that into the game.

David Gilmour

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.

David Gilmour

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also will use any gadget or device that I find that helps me achieve the sort of sound on the guitar that I want to get.

B. B. King

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

Lykke Li

The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals.

Eric Carmen

A couple of years earlier, I toured with Ringo Starr and played the House of Blues in Chicago. I remembered being struck by how (well-run) it was.

Al MacInnis

It was the names of these four men that reminded me why playing for the Blues is as good as it gets in the National Hockey League.

Bill Wyman

The Stones introduced all these young people to the blues music, and I'm doing the same thing.

The WRKR Budweiser Blues Series has been keeping Southwest Michigan entertained for 11 years now. The series this year is proud to have five nominees for the 2006 Blues Music Awards, formerly known as the W.C. Handy Awards.

Robert Cray

Curtis wore prescription Ray-Ban sunglasses, and he had a little growth of hair under his bottom lip. Right then, Belushi got the idea to start the Blues Brothers, basing his character on Curtis.

Blues is the roots, and everything else is the fruits. Just like you can't make soup without water, you can't make music without some element of the blues.

Patty Griffin

I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music, which definitely influenced the way I sing. But singing gospel has made me a much more humble person. There are so many people who were geniuses who only a few people knew about when they were alive.

Stephen Stills

There's some Stills solo blues stuff, some Nash songs, and some material that's obviously all of us, so we're going to keep on going at it like this.

Shirley Manson

We just wanted to make a record that sounded cool. So we stole from hip-hop, we stole from techno and blues and mashed them all up.

Robbie Robertson

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.

Koko Taylor

Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn't know anything about this because prejudice kept them from ever seeing what was going on.

Jackson Browne

People were learning to play traditional music, folk songs, and that's a big field - that's everything from blues to Appalachian music.

Al MacInnis

I am truly honored that the Blues have elected to retire my number, and I'm flattered to join the list of players who have been recognized before me. I will always consider myself part of the Blues family and will look back on my playing days here with fond memories of my teammates, my coaches, the staff and, last but not least, the fans.

Anthony DeCurtis

B.B. has a very specific kind of style, very lyrical. He doesn't play a lot of notes. In a slow blues arrangement, you can really hear the kind of elegance of his playing. He's not down and dirty.

Willie Dixon

My God, I never heard a woman sing the blues like you sing the blues,

Chuck Close

I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.

Merry Clayton

I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'

Old blues stuff is pretty much what we really listen to, and what, on the foundation, structures the band, as far as music goes. That's what we're all collectively super into.