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.
It would be a ho-hum planet if everybody sounded the same.
- Dr John
My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.
- Jimmy Page
I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay wastin' time
- Otis Redding
I’ve always looked to [Howlin] Wolf for guidance, and probably always will.
- Tom Waits
I write a lot of stuff. In fact, I wrote five songs last night but I gave all the papers away in some place called 'The Bitter End'.
- Bob Dylan, June, 1962
[Paul Butterfield] just went for it and took it all in, and he embodied the essence of what the blues was all about.
- Maria Muldaur
Mother, did it need to be so high?
- Pink Floyd, Mother, 1979
Simple music is the hardest music to play and the blues is simple music.
- Albert Collins
Free your mind and your ass will follow... the kingdom of heaven is within.
- Funkadelic, "Free Your Mind…", 1970
I want you to bury my body, out on Highway 61
- Mississippi Fred McDowell
How many times must the cannonballs fly before they're forever banned?
- Bob Dylan, Blowin' In The Wind, 1962
it hit me that [Blind Willie] McTell and most of the great country bluesmen were recording and performing in the early-'20s, which was the same time period as when the De Stijl art movement was taking root. They were both doing the same things: breaking things down to their essences. In my mind, both the country blues and the De Stijl movement represented a new beginning of music and art, perhaps for the rest of eternity.
- Jack White on naming the 2000 White Stripes album De Stijl
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
I'd like to do a song of great social and political import. It goes like this...
- Janis Joplin
Listen to the blues they're playin', listen to what the blues are sayin...
- Willie Nelson, Night Life
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'
- John Lennon
Nobody gets out of this place without singin' the blues.
- Albert Collins
The Blues Remembers Everything the Country Forgot
- Rapper Billy Woods
Well here it is the late 1970s going on 1985, you know so much of the music we hear today is pre-programmed electronic disco we never get to hear bluesmen practicing their craft anymore
- Dan Aykroyd's Blues Brothers Introduction, opening for Steve Martin, September 9, 1978
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