Quotes About Expression

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

Blues was made for the recessed.

I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

I was singing the blues when I was six. Kind of sad, eh?

Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music.

I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

I'm very fortunate that I really like acting, but it's not all I want to do. I love to sing. I love blues. I love jazz.

I love jazz and blues, where there's a structure, but a lot of the cool stuff is veering off the page and playing.

All jazz comes from blues. Blues first.

Listen to really old blues guys and how they weren't allowed to sing about what they meant; they alluded to things. I find that style amusing, and I think it's a little harder to write.

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

I'm interested in Qawwali and the blues.

I was just fascinated by the blues.

If I am going to shine in any arena, it is going to be blues and soul.

The blues has been in my life since I was little.