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.
Lead Belly was a big influence... When you listen to those guys, you're getting down to the root of the tree.
- John Fogerty, Creedence Clearwater Revival
Hearing the blues changed my life
- Van Morrison
My father didn’t never pick no cotton and I didn’t wake up this morning sad and start playing the blues. There's more to it than that.
- Miles Davis
I ain't no big star, but I'll play the blues for you on my guitar.
- Albert King
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
- B.B. King
The devil made me do it the first time. The second time I done it on my own.
- Waylon Jennings, "Black Rose", 1973
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
- Miles Davis
Everyone talks about rock these days... the problem is they forget about the roll.
- Keith Richards
David Crosby: "This is our second gig," Stephen Stills: "This is the second time we've ever played in front of people, man, we're scared shitless."
- Crosby & Stills, on stage, Woodstock 1969
I wrote [White Rabbit] after taking LSD and listening to Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain for 24 hours.
- Grace Slick on writing the psychedelic Jefferson Airplane hit
Listen to the blues they're playin', listen to what the blues are sayin...
- Willie Nelson, Night Life
This is it. This is where music is supposed to have gone for a long time. The Band were clearly in the avant garde.
- Eric Clapton on The Band
I've got the blues in my heart and the devil in my fingers
- Angus Young, AC/DC
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, it's a way of thinking.
- Nina Simone
Miles just called and said he wants this album to be titled: "BITCHES BREW". Please Advise.
- Memo from Teo Macero, Nov. 14th, 1969
It means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.
- Don McLean, on the meaning behind his song "American Pie"
The sound that you're listening to is from my guitar named Lucille
- B.B. King
"I’m pleased to include Dockery Plantation on the Mississippi Blues Trail. Apart from the town’s unique historical legacy, which includes printing its own money, Dockery was home to famed bluesman Charley Patton and played a significant role in the development of the Delta blues"
- Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour
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"
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.
- Tom Waits, "Step Right Up", 1976