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.
I've always been crazy, but its kept me from goin' insane
- Waylon Jennings, "I've Always Been Crazy", 1978
We played some blues, let me tell you...
- Butch Trucks
We right back here again doin' the same thing.
- Mississippi Fred McDowell
Jazz is my religion, and Surrealism is my point of view.
- Ted Joans
I've been 61 Highwayed and I did it my wayed, Little Willie John'ed and been-here-and-goned; million dollar riffed & Jimmy Cliffed, cotton picked and Stevie Nick’d
- Steven Tyler's Autobiography 'Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?'
Mama, I'm coming home
- Ozzy Osbourne
This big white Lincoln pulled up with a dangerous-looking plywood trailer, with 'Boss of the Blues' painted on the side in black spray paint. It was T-Model [Ford].
- Dan Auerbach, on seeking out blues great T-Model Ford
Sometimes I feel, I feel like drinkin' me up some gasoline, Striking me a match and blow myself up in steam
- Blues guitarist Buddy Guy, A Man and the Blues, 1968
We all in the same boat, brother.
- Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter
Think! It ain’t illegal yet.
- Funkadelic, "Lunchmeataphobia", 1978
Listen. The greatest feeling I ever had in my life -- with my clothes on -- was when I first heard Diz and Bird together in St Louis, Missouri back in 1944.
- The opening line of Miles Davis' Autobiography
No one sings the blues like Blind Willie McTell
- Bob Dylan
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
I do not play no Rock n Roll. But this one sounds a little bit like it.
- Mississippi Fred McDowell
You are raw soul.
- Jim Stewart, founder, Stax Records
If you're watching me and Johnny Winter, the show was MENAT to be played in black and white
- Muddy Waters
Do Diddley was up in Kansas City when he first heard "Who Do You Love" in his head, listening to a gang of children bigging up to one another, chanting insults at one another, and calling names to a rhythm that intrigued him.
- 'Bayou Underground: Tracing the Mythical Roots of American Popular Music' by Dave Thompson (2010)
Some'll win, some will lose, Some are born to sing the blues
- Journey, Don't Stop Believin'
Everybody has the Blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith.
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Love Rock n Roll.
- Joan Jett