We keep a database of awesome hand-picked quotes from a variety of authors, musicians, and key people about music, soul, jazz, musicianship, guitars and all things music! Every order you receive from our shop, find a fun new music quote on the bottom of your packing slip! Below are some of our favorites.
We'll hold hands and we'll watch the sunrise from the bottom of the sea
- Jimi Hendrix
It’s okay! Gun’s not loaded… see?
- R&B star Johnny Ace's final words
The note is only twenty percent. The attitude of the motherfuc*er who plays it is eighty percent.
- Miles Davis
The way I think about the blues, comes from what I learned from Big Joe Williams
- Bob Dylan
[John Coltrane] was studying Buddha sometime near the last gig [of his life] and found that there was a chant where you could pound your chest and it would change the sound of your voice. He wanted to get that quiver on the horn, and when he couldn’t get it, he’d put the horn down, beat on his chest and scream into the microphone. People really thought he’d lost his mind then.
- Rashied Ali, drummer for John Coltrane
I was workin' on a plantation. I picked cotton, I copped cotton, I drove trucks, I plowed the mules, I did all of it.
- Muddy Waters
There's a purity like in the old blues record which I like at this point in my life.
- Tom Petty
I never really knew where I wanted to end up; for a long time I thought I just wanted to do country blues
- Robert Plant
I used to be sort of like a blues singer...
- Janis Joplin
Disneyland is Vegas for children.
- Tom Waits
And everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon
- Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon, (1793)
I was born in a cross-fire hurricane and I howled at my ma' in the driving rain
- Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones, Jumpin' Jack Flash (1968)
"[Big Mama Thornton] was a wonderful blues singer, with a great moaning style. But it was as much her appearance, as her blues style that influenced the writing of 'Hound Dog' and the idea that we wanted her to growl it."
- Mike Stoller, on writing Hound Dog Taylor for Big Mama Thornton
I suggest you buy as many blues albums as you can!
- Jake Blues, on the album "Briefcase Full of Blues"
I jump 'em from other writers but I arrange 'em my own way.
- Blind Willie McTell
A splendid time is guaranteed for all.
- Back cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
It’s very hard, in a situation like that, to know what you should do. And maybe it’s because of that, that I started to do what I wanted.
- John Coltrane
Actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street, and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. They were doing the greatest healing work.
- Garth Hudson to Martin Scorsese in The Last Waltz
I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it
- Buddy Guy
I says go on girl don't sing them blues to me, Because I'm sweet as any man can be
- Pink Anderson