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.
We have a history that needs to be told.
- Mavis Staples
I've always felt there are only two really authentic American art forms, Jazz, and the Western movie
- Clint Eastwood
No one sings the blues like Blind Willie McTell
- Bob Dylan
It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.
- Jazz trumpeter Chet Baker
We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
- Donald "Duck" Dunn, The Blues Brothers Movie, 1980
I never wanted too much speed. I always wanted a groove.
- Albert Collins
My thing is more in a blues vein: long, rambling, basic and primitive.
- Jim Morrison, The Doors
I'll never get out of these blues alive
- Blues guitarist John Lee Hooker
The line 'Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose,' expressed the double-edged sword that freedom is: you may be free, but it can be painful to be that free.
- Kris Kristofferson, songwriter, Me And Bobby McGee
Really why I left the south for was to make records.
- Muddy Waters
I said to [Clarence Gatemouth Brown], ‘I play your song Okie Dokey Stomp for my Theme Song!’ and he says… ‘Don’t **** it up, kid’. I quit playin’ it.
- Dr. John
Art is making something out of nothing and then selling it.
- Frank Zappa
You know I told you I do not play no rock n roll. But it kinda sound like it.
- Mississippi Fred McDowell, Shake 'Em On Down
Jazz speaks for life. The blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment you will realized that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s opening address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival.
While we're doing this blues thing, we're gonna play an old Bobby Bland song for ya -- actually it's a T-Bone Walker Song...
- Duane Allman, "At Fillmore East"
My Great Grandpa was a blues lover, he be rockin' his moonshine to B.B. King and Jimmy Reed, rock on pappy
- Betty Davis, They Say I'm Different
He heard Sunnysland Slim play, Sunnyland Slim told him about me, so he got right in touch with me. I was working, driving a truck -- a beautiful little truck.
- Muddy Waters
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird -- that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace -- making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
- Charles Mingus
Ravi Shankar and Robert Johnson are the only guitar players I listen to.
- George Harrison
Well, I Hope Your Ol' Plane Crashes
- Waylon Jennings' last words to Buddy Holly