Mississippi Blues Quotes

#1. When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don't really have the blues, but I can appreciate the honesty and the simplicity of it.

Gin Wigmore

#2. Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

Robert Plant

#3. He sings, "I'm in Mississippi, with mud all in my shoes / My girl in Louisiana with those high water blues." Later he says, "Listen here, you men, / one more thing I'd like to say / Ain't no womens out here, for they all got washed away.

Tom Franklin

#4. The borrower is slave to the lender.

Anonymous

#5. You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

Terry Gilliam

#6. [The trainers] work a day or two a week; I work six days a week, 13 hours a day to get that footage. Carrying the show is very stressful, because I never get away from the cameras. It devastates my personal life.

Jackie Warner

#7. A name is simply a noun used to distinguish one person from another. But it's amazing how much baggage can be packed into a single noun. ~ Grayson van Court

Riley Shane

#8. Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.

Henry Norman Hudson

#9. She and Duncan had ended up together because they were the last two people to be picked for a sports team, and she felt she was better at sports than that.

Nick Hornby

#10. I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.

Harold Budd

#11. Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Miguel De Unamuno

#12. I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

B.B. King

#13. Sometimes real troubles give you strength you never had before." -Lucio-

Fausto Brizzi

#14. Silence didn't bother me, it was actually where I felt most comfortable - in the things that didn't need to be spoken - but this was a very pregnant silence that was starting to give me labor pains.

Nicole Williams

#15. The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.

Jimmy Greaves

#16. I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.

Mose Allison

#17. Although low inflation is generally good, inflation that is too low can pose risks to the economy - especially when the economy is struggling.

Ben Bernanke