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 don't want a soul hangin' around my house when I'm not at home
- B.B. King, Don't Answer The Door
She’s thirsty, get her some acid!
- Jimi Hendrix
For me, music and life are all about style.
- Miles Davis
It’s okay! Gun’s not loaded… see?
- R&B star Johnny Ace's final words
Blues men borrowed from each other constantly, and it is the same with jazz. It is even happened to us. As a musician, I am only the product of my influences.
- Jimmy Page
i think my spaceship knows which way to go
- David Bowie, Space Oddity (1969)
I'm gonna do one song for you -- but I'm gonna do it good.
- Neil Diamond, The Last Waltz
I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That’s their life.
- Robbie Robertson, The Band
Actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street, and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. They were doing the greatest healing work.
- Garth Hudson to Martin Scorsese in The Last Waltz
The black strat was just a guitar. It was my guitar: it was the one I used. What can you say? It has earned its keep.
- David Gilmour
Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
- Otis Redding
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
- Bob Dylan, Absolutely Sweet Marie, 1966
The idea of 'Spoonful' was that it doesn't take a large quantity of anything to be good. If you have a little money when you need it, you're right there in the right spot, that'll buy you a whole lot.
- Howlin' Wolf
Avalon, my home town, always on my mind
- Mississippi John Hurt, "Avalon Blues"
Clothes are like a beat — you gotta fit with what’s happening. You can’t be out of step and expect people to dig you.
- Miles Davis, "Miles: The Autobiography", 1989
Free your mind and your ass will follow... the kingdom of heaven is within.
- Funkadelic, "Free Your Mind…", 1970
I got to Chicago on September the 25th, 1957 and I'm still here.
- Buddy Guy
I have never found anything more deeply soulful than Robert Johnson.
- Eric Clapton
Here comes the 'tra la la'
- Waylon Jennings
Miles [Davis] is a strange guy — he doesn’t talk a lot, and he rarely discusses music.
- John Coltrane