Blues Musician Quotes & Sayings

For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother. — Jeanne Moreau

It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of is it's music where a lot of different elements are played at the same time. The harmonic, the melodic ... You're pushing the boundaries on every level. That could be true of rhythm and blues as well. I'm a musician. — David Sanborn

As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things. — Zoe Saldana

When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician. — Jonathan Tropper

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

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit. — Kevin Nealon

confirmed that Walsh was in a restaurant for a big family celebration on the evening Mr Oakley was killed. I had to — Stephen Puleston

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man. — Albert Murray

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want. — Justin Townes Earle

My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick sharkskin suit. Believe it or not, that's how I decided I wanted to get into music. — Charlie Wilson

It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one who will not only show, but be the Truth; who will not only point, but open and be the way; who will not only communicate thought, but give, because He is the Life. Not the rabbi's pulpit, nor the teacher's desk, still less the gilded chairs of earthly monarchs, least of all the tents of conquerors, are the throne of the true king. He rules from the cross. — Alexander MacLaren

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop. — Buddy Guy

Benny [Carter] opened the eyes of a lot of producers and studios, so that they could understand that you could go to blacks for other things outside of blues and barbecue. He's a total musician. He was the pioneer, he was the foundation. He made it possible for that doubt to be taken away. — Quincy Jones

An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians. — Gary Hoey

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing. — Buddy Guy

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear. — Rumi

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it. — Johnny Winter

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

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth. — Bill Nye

Let the Word be preached, the truth taught, and error will be uncovered and souls delivered. — Arno C. Gaebelein

The preparation for the ritual is the ritual. — Kate Green

Who Am I?
I'm a creator, a visionary, a poet. I approach the world with the eyes of an artist, the ears of a musician, and the soul of a writer. I see rainbows where others see only rain, and possibilities when others see only problems. I love spring flowers, summer's heat on my body, and the beauty of the dying leaves in the fall. Classical music, art museums, and ballet are sources of inspiration, as well as blues music and dim cafes. I love to write; words flow easily from my fingertips, and my heart beats rapidly with excitement as an idea becomes a reality on the paper in front of me. I smile often, laugh easily, and I weep at pain and cruelty. I'm a learner and a seeker of knowledge, and I try to take my readers along on my journey. I am passionate about what I do. I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me. — Sharon M. Draper

I could feel myself shrinking. I couldn't move, not even to blink or breathe. Soon I'd be nothing at all. — Jessica Martinez

I couldn't believe he'd chosen to become mortal just so he could travel with me into Hell. He was thinking about me over himself. Still trying to be my protector. I hoped I could make it up to him one day. — Cameo Renae

I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken. — Christopher Reeve

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do. — Carlos Santana

If music serves to convey feelings through the interaction of physical gestures and sound, the musician needs his brain state to match the emotional state he is trying to express. Although the studies haven't been performed yet, I'm willing to bet that when B.B. King is playing the blues and when he is feeling the blues, the neural signatures are very similar. (Of course there will be differences, too, and part of the scientific hurdle will be subtracting out the processes involved in issuing motor commands and listening to music, versus just sitting on a chair, head in hands, and feeling down.) And as listeners, there is every reason to believe that some of our brain states will match those of the musicians we are listening to. — Daniel J. Levitin

Nothing is possible without love. — Carl Jung