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 must have been made in heaven.
- Jimmy Cobb, drummer on (and about) Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" album
I think in this country we keep returning to blues and country because they're our two indigenous musical forms.
- Jim Morrison, The Doors
I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
- AC/DC's Angus Young
Highway 61 begins about where I came from, Duluth, to be exact. ...I always felt like I'd started on it, always had been on it, and could go anywhere from it.
- Bob Dylan
Washington DC, lord, it's a bourgeois town
- Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter
I mean what’s the point in listening to us doing “I’m A King Bee” when you can listen to Slim Harpo doing it?
- Keith Richards
Avalon, my home town, always on my mind
- Mississippi John Hurt, "Avalon Blues"
Mick wanted to dance, and I was a dancer - but he never gave me the credit! He said his mother taught him how to dance. But we worked with him in the dressing room, me and the girls, and we taught him how to Pony.
- Tina Turner
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.
- Louis Armstrong
If there ever was an indigenous art form, one that is special and peculiar to the United States and represents what we are as a country, I would say that it's jazz
- President Jimmy Carter, White House Jazz Festival, June 18, 1978
I suggest you buy as many blues albums as you can!
- Jake Blues, on the album "Briefcase Full of Blues"
To keep a band together you simply need a gimmick. The gimmick I use is to pay them money.
- Duke Ellington
Every now and then I know it's kinda hard to tell but I'm still alive and well!
- Johnny Winter, "Still Alive & Well", 1973
I wonder whether anything since then has been as good.
- Alan Lomax on Fred McDowell's "Shake 'Em On Down"
The cover of Led Zeppelin, the British quartet's seismic 1969 debut, shows the Hindenburg airship, in all its phallic glory, going down in flames. The image did a pretty good job of encapsulating the music inside: sex, catastrophe and things blowing up.
- Greg Kot, Rolling Stone # 877
Well, I Hope Your Ol' Plane Crashes
- Waylon Jennings' last words to Buddy Holly
I suggest you buy as many blues albums as you can.
- Jake Blues, September 9, 1978, at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles
Anything you do, if you wanna do it and you love it, you rich. You a millionaire, man.
- Hubert Sumlin
"There was quite a few people around singing the blues but most of them was singing all sad blues. Muddy was giving his blues a little pep."
- Willie Dixon
We proved that we can make a hit record without Jerry Wexler eating sandwiches with us.
- Singer Tamiko Jones on Solomon Burke