Developed around the 19th century, blues is a type of music genre that incorporates a lot of elements to create its unique harmonies and rhythms. This includes rhymed narratives, work songs, and even chants. Despite how catchy it is, however, blues music is slowly declining in popularity as more and more people are developing different tastes in music.
If you’re a fan of the genre and you can’t get enough of its rhythm, then this collection of blues music is great news for you. Go ahead and enjoy!
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It’s in New Orleans music, it’s in jazz, it’s in country music, it’s in gospel. – Wynton Marsalis
When you are through with the blues, you’ve got nothing to rest on. – Mahalia Jackson
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore. – B. B. King
The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn’t about the blues, it’s about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together. – Peter Tork
In blues music, there’s a lot of borrowing, so it’s often difficult to identify the originator of a song. – Henry Rollins
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. – Jimi Hendrix
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It’s probably the music that belongs most to our time. – Michael Tippett
Particularly with the blues, it’s not just about bad times. It’s about the healing spirit. – Taj Mahal
Blues is to Jazz what yeast is to bread; without it, it’s flat. – Carmen McRae
Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don’t live it you don’t have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.Big – Bill Broonzy
Blues ain’t never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain’t going nowhere. – David Edwards
The blues comes right back to a person’s feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don’t know nothing about the blues, please believe me. – Jimmy Rushing
The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing. – Jimmy Rushing
Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues. – August Wilson
The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It’s better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues. – Willie Dixon
Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. – Wynton Marsalis
The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink. – Henry Rollins
Blues is not a dream, blues is truth. – Brownie Mcghee
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow. – Nina Simone
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding. – Willie Dixon
You don’t have to live the blues to play the blues. – Herbie Mann
Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now – not remotely. – Henry Rollins
The blues is the foundation, and it’s got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock ‘n’ roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues. – Luther Allison
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one’s aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically. – Ralph Ellison
The blues – the sound of a sinner on revival day. – William Christopher Handy
The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning. – John Lee Hooker
If you don’t know the blues… there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. – Keith Richards
The blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life. – Eric Clapton
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