Blues Musician Inspirational Quotes (32)

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, thats what you expect to gain.

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

If talk was money, you'd be a millionaire. If thoughts could kill, there'd be no one here.

According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The first thing that came out of man is the blues because, according to the Scriptures, when God made man, man was lonesome and blue.

There are happy blues, sad blues, lonesome blues, red-hot blues, mad blues, and loving blues. Blues is a testimony to the fullness of life.

Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.