Bluesman Quotes & Sayings

I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys. — Cornel West

When I was 15, if anything, I thought I was going to be a Delta bluesman, which is so ridiculous. — James Bay

What would my life have been without you? — Laura Barnett

This is why we do it all over again every year. Fueled only by the stuff they drink from the air and earth, the bush beans fill out their rows, the okra booms, the corn stretches eagerly toward the sky like a toddler reaching up to put on a shirt ... We gardeners are right in the middle of this with our weeding and tying up, our mulching and watering, our trained eyes guarding against bugs, groundhogs, and weather damage. But to be honest, the plants are working harder, doing all the real production. We are management; they're labor. — Barbara Kingsolver

A Bluesman hates to be told what to do. Authority rankles him, inspires his rebellion, and plays to his need to self-destruct. A Bluesman doesn't take to having a boss unless he's on a chain gang (for the chain gang boss ranks below only a mean old woman and a sweet young thing in the hierarchy of the Blues Muse, followed closely by bad liquor, a dead dog, and the Man). — Christopher Moore

Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred. — Ralph Metcalfe

I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want. — Johnny Winter

She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just for a minute while they talked round her. — Katherine Mansfield

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. — B.B. King

I relax and enjoy life. I know that whatever I need to know is revealed to me in the perfect time and space sequence. — Louise Hay

When I'm filming, I try to get a facial two weeks before I start shooting and then again once I've wrapped. On set they tend to use a lot of make-up, so I like to prepare my skin right before, and then unclog all my pores right after. — Chelan Simmons

What I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas. — Cornel West

I play blues, sure, but don't call me a bluesman — Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

He could laugh, though, and there was no bluesman who ever lived who didn't know how to laugh at the craziness of life. — Jonathan Maberry

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some heart. The blues blew over to the next plantation, and then the next state. The blues went south to north, got electrified and even sanctified. The blues got mixed up with jazz and gospel and rock and roll. — Cornel West

When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings. — Paul Of The Cross