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.
When I joined Miles Davis band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!
- Keith Jarrett, speaking of his time with the Miles Davis band.
I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
- Muddy Waters
If you're watching me and Johnny Winter, the show was MENAT to be played in black and white
- Muddy Waters
I'm back right now to where I started. I've given this era of music everything... I can't think of anything new to add to it in its present state.
- Jimi Hendrix, three weeks before his death
I played with him. Howlin' Wolf was a mean man, but you know who was meaner? Howlin' Wolf was scared of Jimmy Reed.
- L.C. Ulmer
Listen to what the blues are sayin'
- Willie Nelson
We'd like to thank the Beatles for lending us their stadium.
- Sting, The Police, to a packed Shea Stadium, NYC, August 18, 1983
Everything I do is Mingus
- Charlie Mingus
Music is my religion.
- Jimi Hendrix
Don't die 'til you're dead
- Mississippi John Hurt
I told the musicians they could do anything they wanted, do anything they heard, so that's what they did.
- Miles Davis on recording Bitches Brew
So it was through Bill (Graham) that I meet the Grateful Dead. Jerry Garcia is their guitar player and I (we) hit it off great talking about music-what they liked and what I liked-and I think we all learned something, grew some. Jerry loved jazz and I found out that he loved my music and had been listening to it for a long time
- Miles Davis
I'm just goin' down the road t' see Bessie Smith, when I get there I wonder what she'll do
- Bob Dylan & The Band, "Bessie Smith"
Lead Belly was a big influence... When you listen to those guys, you're getting down to the root of the tree.
- John Fogerty, Creedence Clearwater Revival
[Robert Johnson's music is] like my oldest friend, always in the back of my head, and on the horizon
- Eric Clapton
My advice is everybody come to California and I’ll buy you a drink
- Janis Joplin
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees!
- James Brown, Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud, 1968
By the year 2006 the music known today as the blues will exist only in the classical records department in your local public library
- Opening of The Blues Brothers' Briefcase Full of Blues
Let me shine some love light down on the blues man.
- Hank Williams, Jr.
If it's in the groove everybody loves it, Howlin Wolf said that
- Ray Wylie Hubbard