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.
Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.
- Robbie Robertson, "American Roulette", 1987
You never told me he was that fucking good.
- - Eric Clapton to Bob Dylan when he saw Hendrix play for the first time
I just like the blues better than rock n roll.
- Johnny Winter
This is my first million seller!
- Otis Redding, having just written Dock of the Bay.
The Blues is the three L's. -- Living, Loving, and, hopefully, laughing.
- B.B. King
Now when I was a young boy at the age of five, my mother said I was gonna be the greatest man alive.
- Muddy Waters
I'd rather laugh with sinners, than cry with saints
- Billy Joel, "Only the Good Die Young", 1977
The local law enforcement authorities never expected ... the spirit of 'Music, Love and Flowers' to take over to the point where they'd allow themselves to be festooned with flowers.
- Founder Lou Adler on the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival
Guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed sticks conducts his business.
- Frank Zappa's self-affixed Explicit Content Warning
By the year 2006 the music known today as the blues will exist only in the classical records department in your local public library
- Opening of The Blues Brothers' Briefcase Full of Blues
i think my spaceship knows which way to go
- David Bowie, Space Oddity (1969)
The heart is a muscle used for the blues
- Otis Taylor
Honest and popular don't go hand in hand. If you admit that you can play the accordion, no one'll hire you in a rock 'n' roll band.
- Composer/Singer/Songwriter/Actor Paul Williams
They ain't got enough soul, man. They ain't had enough hard times.
- Muddy Waters
[My voice] sounded like me trying to do Leadbelly songs. But I knew it was good.
- Van Morrison
Hard Rock has unquestionably hit its all-time low
- Rolling Stone's review of AC/DC's first release
We used to drive through Lafayette and Baton Rouge in a yellow Camino listening to Howling Wolf
- Lucinda Williams
It is a remarkable thing to have been driven and influenced all of my life by the work of one man
- Eric Clapton on Robert Johnson
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
- Bob Dylan, Absolutely Sweet Marie, 1966
The other part of the scene, the rock n roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.
- Luther Allison