Quotes About Robert Johnson Blues

#1. Robert Johnson invented the blues, at midnight, at a crossroads, after selling his soul to the devil. Dorothy Parker invented amusing women, at 2 p.m., in New York's best cocktail bar, after tipping a busboy 50 cents for a martini. It's hard not to draw conclusions as to which is the brighter sex.

Caitlin Moran

#2. When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.

Bob Dylan

#3. Blues fallin' down like hail And the day keeps on worryin' me There's a hell hound on my trail.

Robert Johnson

#4. What do you believe? You never say anything. At the most you sometimes laugh.

Lawrence Durrell

#5. I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first time I'd done anything like that in my life. I was not brought up with the blues or anything like that, and I really, really enjoyed it.

Robert Palmer

#6. I woke up this mornin' Feelin' round for my shoes Know 'bout I got these, Old walkin' blues.

Robert Johnson

#7. Some people tell me that the worried blues ain't bad. Worst old feelin' I most ever had.

Robert Johnson

#8. I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

B.B. King

#9. My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an album of Robert Johnson covers that, well, while not totally faithful for blues purists, is faithful for people like me that grew up with the '60s and the electric blues-rock versions of Johnson's songs.

Todd Rundgren

#10. The blues is a low down achin' chill,

Robert Johnson

#11. I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

Jack White

#12. Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.

Karl Liebknecht

#13. God doesn't do coincidences. You can bet your ass.

Matthew Quick

#14. There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

William Hazlitt

#15. Am I not a woman and a sister?

Maria W. Stewart