blues Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about blues.
“Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.”
- Mahalia Jackson
“The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.”
- Henry Rollins
“My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.”
- Jonny Lang
“I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.”
- Alexis Korner