Quotes on Singing The Blues

Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.

A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.