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.
People read so much into 'Positively 4th Street,' but I wrote it in a coffee shop on 4th Street. That's it.
- Bob Dylan
I've always been crazy, but its kept me from goin' insane
- Waylon Jennings, "I've Always Been Crazy", 1978
You know what, man, if you can play the blues, baby, you can do anything. Don't worry about playing me.
- Ray Charles' encouragement to Jamie Foxx on how to portray the pianist
Robert Johnson stole my heart when I was 14.
- Robert Plant
Some'll win, some will lose, Some are born to sing the blues
- Journey, Don't Stop Believin'
The taledragger, from Greeeenville, Mississippi; I'm the boss of the blues. Can't read can't write ain't never been to school a day in my life.
- Opening line of T-Model Ford's "Bad Man", 2002
That one record [Music From Big Pink] changed everything for me. After Sgt. Pepper, it's the most influential record in the history of rock and roll. It affected Pink Floyd deeply, deeply, deeply.
- Pink Floyd's Riger Waters to Dallas Morning News in 2008
Ain't but one kind of blues...
- Son House
If a song was ever good, it's still good.
- Willie Nelson
The sunshine bores the daylight out of me
- The Rolling Stones, Rocks Off, 1972
I was playing soft while Bobby sang the blues
- Janis Joplin
This Record Should Be Played Loud
- Back cover of The Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed
Washington DC, lord, it's a bourgeois town
- Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter
When people say we took the blue back to America, it's such bollocks. Because John Hammond, Canned Heat, Bob Dylan, Mike Bloomfield, Elvis Bishop... all these people were already playing it.
- Robert Plant in Paul Rees' 2013 Biography
I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
- Eartha Kitt
They call me rude, some dude's fiery attitude, claimin' I boast, smoke, sometimes sing the blues
- Chuck D, Public Enemy
The Blues is the three L's. -- Living, Loving, and, hopefully, laughing.
- B.B. King
You're the reason I'm trav'lin on. Don't think twice it's all right.
- Bob Dylan, "Don't Think Twice", 1963
When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth which flow through his instrument.
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
'So What' or 'Kind of Blue', they were done in that era, the right hour, the right day, and it happened. It's over .... What I used to play with Bill Evans, all those different modes, and substitute chords, we had the energy then and we liked it. But I have no feel for it anymoreβit's more like warmed-over turkey.
- Miles Davis