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.
You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know.
- Grateful Dead, "Black Throated Wind", 1972
By the year 2006 the music known today as the blues will exist only in the classical records department in your local public library. So tonight, ladies and gentlemen
while we still can let us welcome from Rock Island, Illinois, the blues music from Elliot Jake and Elwood Blues, The Blues Brothers
- Opening of The Blues Brothers' Briefcase Full of Blues
Elvis has left the building.
- Oscar Davis, Toledo, Thanksgiving Day, November 22nd, 1956
I thought I heard Buddy Bolden say / Funky butt, funky butt, take it away…
- Willie Cornish
The first blues festivals I ever went to, I always got a shiver every time I saw Sonny Boy Williamson, the way he strutted out on the stage.
- Robert Plant
Let's Dance.
- David Bowie
I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people.
- Ravi Shankur
Johnny [Winter] is going to play with my band and shake the house up
- Muddy Waters
Do Diddley was up in Kansas City when he first heard "Who Do You Love" in his head, listening to a gang of children bigging up to one another, chanting insults at one another, and calling names to a rhythm that intrigued him.
- 'Bayou Underground: Tracing the Mythical Roots of American Popular Music' by Dave Thompson (2010)
Its a sad dog that can’t wag its own tail
- Joe Louis Walker
My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.
- Jimmy Page
I wished I was a catfish swimming down in the sea, I'd have some good woman fishing after me
- Jim Jackson, Kansas City Blues, 1928
When I heard Howlin' Wolf, I knew this is where the soul of man never dies.
- Sam Phillips, Owner, Sun Records
Get rhythm when you get the blues
- Johnny Cash
I have never found anything more deeply soulful than Robert Johnson.
- Eric Clapton
You got to get behind the mule in the morning and plow
- Tom Waits, Get Behind The Mule, 1999
Songs just like being around some folks more than others. They won't live just anywhere.
- Tom Waits
if I can't get me no sweet potato pie, I'm gonna get me some ass
- Howlin' Wolf
If I had you, Governor Neff, like you got me, I'd a-wake up in the mornin' and I'd set you free.
- Inmate Lead Belly's song to Texas Governor Pat Neff, who pardoned the musician on his last day in office.
You could find the Abstract listening to hip hop / My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop / I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles / The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin like Michael
- "Excursions", Tribe Called Quest, 1991