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.
The Blues Brothers is a testament to John and Dan’s passion for the blues. They took advantage of their celebrity to focus attention on soul music.
- John Landis, Director, The Blues Brothers
Bring me champagne when I'm thirsty, bring me reefer when I want to get high.
- Muddy Waters
Jazz speaks for life.
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste.
- The Rolling Stones, "Sympathy For The Devil", 1968
It means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.
- Don McLean, on the meaning behind his song "American Pie"
White or black. Rich or poor. If you ever had your heart broken you have right to sing the blues.
- Big Mama Thorton
I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it... I will seek knowledge from those wiser, and teach those who wish to learn from me.
- Duane "SKYDOG" Allman, The Allman Brothers
Some'll win, some will lose, Some are born to sing the blues
- Journey, Don't Stop Believin'
The first guitarist I was aware of was Muddy Waters.
- Jimi Hendrix
I think that life's too long to bother with suing Andrew f**king Lloyd Webber.
- Pink Floyd's Roger Waters on Webber stealing "Echoes" for the opening of the 1987 film Phantom of the Opera
I want you to bury my body, out on Highway 61
- Mississippi Fred McDowell
It would be a ho-hum planet if everybody sounded the same.
- Dr John
I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.
- John Coltrane to Jazz Magazine
Men have died for this music. you can't get more serious than that.
- Dizzy Gillespie
The very first instrument I played was the bottom of my feet, workin' out rhythms, tap dancing... We used to dance all up and down Bourbon Street.
- Henry Byrd, better known as Professor Longhair
Jazz isn't dead, It just smells funny.
- Frank Zappa
I'm gonna show you how to play the blues, you just sit here and watch me
- Howlin' Wolf
Little Red Hen said to the little red rooster, you don't come round my chicken shack as much as you use to... roosta
- Taj Mahal
I suggest you buy as many blues albums as you can.
- Jake Blues, September 9, 1978, at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles
Boy, do I got some stories to tell.
- Robbie Robertson, The Band