“I don’t give a f*** if you boo, as long as you boo in key” – Jimi Hendrix, opening his last ever showRead more
“I’m back right now to where I started. I’ve given this era of music everything… I can’t think of anything new to add to it in its present state.” – Jimi Hendrix, three weeks before his deathRead more
“When I die I’m going to have a jam session… I’ll have a few of Eddie Cochran’s things and a whole lot of blues.” – Jimi HendrixRead more
“The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women” – Waylon Jennings, “Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love)”Read more
“Let’s go to Luckenbach, Texas With Waylon and Willie and the boys” – Waylon Jennings, “Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love)”Read more
“Someone called us outlaws in some ol’ magazine…” – Waylon Jennings, “Don’t You Think This Outlaw Bit Has Done Got Out Of Hand”Read more
“I got a rabbit foot in my pocket, a toad frog in my shoes, A craw fish on my shoulder, lookin’ dead at you” – Koko Taylor, “Voodoo Woman”Read more
“The name ‘Ziggy’ was one of the few Christian names I could find beginning with the letter ‘Z’.” – David BowieRead more
“Bob [Dylan] wrote me thanking me for the advice I had given him about music. What he earned, what he done, he got it honest.” – Big Joe WilliamsRead more
“You can either get all bummed out and go home or figure these 6 people cared or were interested enough to show up so we’ll play our asses off to them” – Klaus Flouride, The Dead KennedysRead more
“You know the time when I will retire? When I can hear them nail a lid on my box. And then I’ll f***ing do an encore. I’m the Prince of Darkness.” – Ozzy OsbourneRead more
“I stopped and peeked over, and then I left because he was a dangerous man.” – Muddy Waters, on the only time he saw Robert Johnson.Read more
“I got to keep movin’, I’ve got to keep movin’… Blues fallin’ down like hail” – Robert Johnson, “Hellhound on my Trail”Read more
“Just come on back to Friars Point, mama, and barrelhouse all night long.” – Robert Johnson, “Traveling Riverside Blues”Read more
“I got womens in Vicksburg, clean on into Tennessee, but my Friar’s Point rider, now, hops all over me.” – Robert Johnson, “Traveling Riverside Blues”Read more
“I was shaking. I had sweat pouring down my back. Miles saw me suffering and said, ‘Play it like you don’t know how to play guitar!'” – John McLaughlin on surviving his audition with Miles DavisRead more
“Are big bands coming back? Sure, every football season.” – Clarinetist and saxophonist Woody HermanRead more
“Some stances are just conducive to swinging. If I stand up straight for too long it’s harder to swing. Plus my feet hurt.” – Trumpeter & composer Wynton MarsalisRead more
“To be honest with you, I don’t even listen to that much heavy metal. I just don’t. I listen to Peter Gabriel.” – Ozzy OsbourneRead more
“Tom [Petty] remained as he had in Florida: the worst driver in the world.” – Mike Campbell, The HeartbreakersRead more
“I don’t know how I’m gonna do it but I’m gonna try” – Sammy Davis Jr, “Gonna Build a Mountain”Read more
“Chuck Berry took them all by storm and played against their animosity. To me, that’s blues. That’s the attitude and the guts it takes.” – Mick Jagger, The Rolling StonesRead more
“I wish you wouldn’t make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they’re only a tax dodge!” – Tommy Dorsey (to arranger Nelson Riddle)Read more
“[Chuck Berry] whupped my butt… He said he was the king of rock & roll and I said I was. And he said he was and he proved he was. I don’t argue with him no more.” – Jerry Lee LewisRead more
“Now you and Elvis are pretty good but you ain’t Chuck Berry.” – Jerry Lee Lewis’ mother to the pianistRead more
“Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don’t live it you don’t have it.” – Big Bill BroonzyRead more
“How could you not be influenced by reading the same idiocies in ten different jazz journals?” – Boris VianRead more
“I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like ‘My character is just fine.'” – Diana KrallRead more
“As long as they say I’ve got a great band, I don’t care if they say it’s bop or what.” – Dizzy GillespieRead more
