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.
The [Blues Brothers] hats came from John Lee Hooker.
- Dan Aykroyd to the Chicago Sun-Times
I'm just goin' down the road t' see Bessie Smith, when I get there I wonder what she'll do
- Bob Dylan & The Band, "Bessie Smith"
I grabbed that turkey by the wing and out the window I went flyin'
- Pink Anderson
I'm tired of y'all playing dress-up and trying to sing them old country songs
- Sturgill Simpson
I'm going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come, they've got some pretty little women and I'm gonna get me one.
- Big Joe Turner
i think my spaceship knows which way to go
- David Bowie, Space Oddity (1969)
We did have people who would say to us, "which one's Pink" and stuff like that. There were an awful lot of people who thought Pink Floyd was the name of the lead singer, and that was Pink himself and the band.
- David Gilmour
I was born with music inside me.
- Ray Charles
Ravi Shankar and Robert Johnson are the only guitar players I listen to.
- George Harrison
Don't die 'til you're dead
- Mississippi John Hurt
But I'm always crashing in the same car
- David Bowie, "Always Crashing In The Same Car", 1977
See my skin is white, but my soul is black
- Steve Marriott, Humble Pie, "Black Coffee"
Thank you, that was for Wilson Pickett
- Jake Blues / John Belushi
People read so much into 'Positively 4th Street,' but I wrote it in a coffee shop on 4th Street. That's it.
- Bob Dylan
If you don't like it, you can f*** off.
- Last Words of The Who's Keith Moon
Nashville's got its head up its ass.
- Waylon Jennings
They don't call me the Texas homewrecker heartbreaker for nothin'
- Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top
I'm gonna bring it on down to Soulsville
- Isaac Hayes
The blues dwell with you everyday and everywhere.
- Lightnin’ Hopkins
One of my favorite things of having new shirts from you is putting one on, reaching back and pulling the tag off. It’s like popping open a new can of pringles.
- Benson D., Austin, Texas