Blues Music Quotes

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

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

If you don't live it, you don't believe it.

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

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

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

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

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

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

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

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