Blues Music Quotes

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

  Wynton Marsalis

  Pain, Struggle, Joy

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• The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

  Leon Redbone

  Men, Good Man

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

  John Lee Hooker

  Stories, Lines

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• 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

  Music, Mean, Roots

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• Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Fake People, Peace

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

  Al Jarreau

  Music, Effort, Jazz

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

  Albert Collins

  Simple, Play, Music Is

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• 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

  Song, Understanding, Feelings

  "I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story".

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• Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

  Buddy Guy

  Musician, Retiring

  "Buddy Guy: ‘Blues Musicians Don’t Retire, They Drop’". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. April 6, 2012.

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

  Bruce Springsteen

  Music Is, Heard

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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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• Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Play, Make You Happy, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.

  Henry Rollins

  Fashion, Pain, Feelings

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

  Muddy Waters

  Memories, Long, Causes

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

  Billy Gibbons

  Music, Feelings, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  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.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Men

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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• White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

  Son House

  White, Folks, Singing The Blues

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• 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, Workout, Black

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• My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

  Etta James

  Music, Mother, Song

  FaceBook post by Etta James from Aug 28, 2013

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• 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, Angel, Wings

  FaceBook post by Buddy Guy from Aug 23, 2013

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• But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Fun, White, Black

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• The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

  Luther Allison

  Wall, Rocks, Rock N Roll

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

  B. B. King

  Music, Being Yourself, Guitar

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• Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Jazz And Life, Boundaries

  "Bird: the legend of Charlie Parker". Book by Robert George Reisner, p. 27, 1977.

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