Best 11 quotes in «blues music quotes» category

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

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

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

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

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

I've always wanted to visit [Washington]. The Smithsonian has some fantastic archival material on blues music, which I'm really into. There's a ton of stuff I want to do there. but it just never happened.

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

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

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

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.

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