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.
Don't die 'til you're dead
- Mississippi John Hurt
I may be getting old, but I've got young fashioned ways...
- Muddy Waters
If a song was ever good, it's still good.
- Willie Nelson
When I was down in Mississippi, there was just three things I wanted to be - a heck of a preacher, a heck of a ball player or a heck of a musician.
- Muddy Waters
I'm gonna get home as soon as I can.
- B.B. King
I never really knew where I wanted to end up; for a long time I thought I just wanted to do country blues
- Robert Plant
It was like TNT, man, it just exploded. All of a sudden the world was wrapped up in rock.
- Carl Perkins
Hearing the blues changed my life
- Van Morrison
The first blues festivals I ever went to, I always got a shiver every time I saw Sonny Boy Williamson, the way he strutted out on the stage.
- Robert Plant
Western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.
- Willie Nelson
I had never heard the word 'superstar' but when I think about it today, I was a superstar tractor driver. I loved it.
- B.B. King
Now when I was a young boy at the age of five, my mother said I was gonna be the greatest man alive.
- Muddy Waters
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'
- John Lennon
Howard just pointed with his gun and said, 'That way, down Highway 61'
- Bob Dylan
Nobody gets out of this place without singin' the blues.
- Albert Collins
I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay wastin' time
- Otis Redding
Okay, the Allman Brothers Band...
- Michael Ahern, At Fillmore East
There's good timing, bad timing, and Junior Wells' timing
- Albert Castiglia
Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
- Homer Simpson
It's been a long, a long time coming but I know a change gonna come.
- Sam Cooke