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.
I'm going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come, they've got some pretty little women and I'm gonna get me one.
- Big Joe Turner
The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. They played it like that in the shanties and juke joints and nobody paid it no mind 'til I goose it up.
- Elvis Presley
There's good timing, bad timing, and Junior Wells' timing
- Albert Castiglia
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
- Miles Davis
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
- Janis Joplin, "Mercedes Benz"
Ravi Shankar and Robert Johnson are the only guitar players I listen to.
- George Harrison
I think Bill Monroe's importance to American music is as important as someone like Robert Johnson was to blues, or Louis Armstrong.
- Ricky Scaggs
There was a set list from my first band, the Black Snake Moan, written on a little card – Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy, Chuck Berry.
- Robert Plant
You belong somewhere you feel free
- Tom Petty, Wildflowers, 1994
The Blues Remembers Everything the Country Forgot
- Rapper Billy Woods
You can call me old fashioned or behind the times but the one who got the money maker shaking all night was Elmore James.
- Tim Easton, "Elmore James", 2018
I still think that most people of people think of us as a very drug-oriented group... Of course, we're not. You can trust us...
- David Gilmour, Pink Floyd
In America, well it's the land of the free, you can get what you want if you've got some do-re-me
- Tina Turner, "Black Coffee", 1972
It is a great life, this life of music.
- Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic Records
Some'll win, some will lose, Some are born to sing the blues
- Journey, Don't Stop Believin'
I jump 'em from other writers, but I arrange 'em my own way.
- Blind Willie McTell
I am the blues
- Willie Dixon
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
- Keith Richards
[John Coltrane's] 'A Love Supreme' is probably one of the most beautiful and sublime recordings of the twentieth century.
- Moby
It’s okay! Gun’s not loaded… see?
- R&B star Johnny Ace's final words