Nobody can tell you how the BLUES feel unless they have the blues.
We all take it differently.
.....................................Otis Rush
It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
.......................................Eric Clapton
Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love.
You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever.
You know, that's the blues.
You can't hug that money at night.
You can't kiss it.
...........................................John Lee Hooker
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice.
Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
..........................................B. B. King
Saturday night is your big night.
Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time.
Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.
And be glad of it.
And they really liked the low-down blues.
..................................Muddy Waters
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
.............................Maurice Maeterlinck
I been in the blues all my life.
I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
.........................................Muddy Waters
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
.......................................Jimi Hendrix
A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
........................................Otis Rush