Blues Musician Quotes

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

Johnny Winter

#2. 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

#3. As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

Kevin Nealon

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. One girl, actually, in the UK - it was a really small show in Wales - a girl came up to me and said that because of one of my songs she was still alive. She'd decided not to commit suicide. It was a really emotional moment.

Lights

#10. Teach children tolerance. No one need surrender his or her own beliefs while extending tolerance to those with other beliefs.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#11. 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

#12. Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

Jim Palmer

#13. An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.

Gary Hoey

#14. Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

Brett Ratner

#16. The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

Buddy Guy

#17. Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point.

Lynne Truss

#18. Everybody is clever, just in their own ways

Matt Groening

#19. 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

#20. She devoutly put away in her drawers her beautiful dress, down to the satin shoes whose soles were yellowed with the slippery wax of the dancing floor. Her heart was like these. In its friction against wealth something had come over it that could not be effaced.

Gustave Flaubert

#21. Navigation is about wayfinding, you can't treat it as separate because many other things run parallel with it. If you look at studies in wayfinding, everything from exhibit design to building the cathedrals, it's about creating a complete system. It's about looking at the whole.

Clement Mok

#22. Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

Buddy Guy

#23. Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. He advised that I could invest in stocks to make money. Given that I have a negative balance, that was where the conversation stopped.

Vann Chow

#25. I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.

Ted Chiang

#26. Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

Michael Parenti