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 know people have tried to put me off as being crazy, Sometimes it’s to your advantage for people to think you’re crazy.
- Thelonious Sphere Monk
Feelin' good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues
- Kris Kristofferson
The Blues is the roots of all American music.
- Willie Dixon
If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.
- Jazz Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins
I don't want to be a rock n roll star.
- Jimi Hendrix
For the sake of arguing, if I named my dog [Otis] after somebody, I named him just as much after Otis Spann.
- Gregg Allman
Didn't I see you down in San Antone On a hot and dusty night?
- Mick Jagger, "Memo From Turner", 1970
Any man who can stop a riot can also start one
- Vice President Spyro Agnew on James Brown
It's easier to bone the President's wife than to get a movie made. So I say God bless these cats.
- Ray Charles, on the movie Ray
There's good timing, bad timing, and Junior Wells' timing
- Albert Castiglia
After Syd, Dave was the difference between light and dark... We became far less difficult to enjoy, I think.
- Nick Mason, Pink Floyd Drummer
We have a history that needs to be told.
- Mavis Staples
There must be some of way outta here, said the joker to the thief.
- Jimi Hendrix
We tune because we care for your ears
- Jimi Hendrix
When people say we took the blue back to America, it's such bollocks. Because John Hammond, Canned Heat, Bob Dylan, Mike Bloomfield, Elvis Bishop... all these people were already playing it.
- Robert Plant in Paul Rees' 2013 Biography
My dear sister, Hope you are okay. I will be home soon. Tell all [hello]. I haven't wrote Louis. Sorry but haven't had time. Tell mother I wrote you. Yours truly, Robert Johnson
- Postcard to Johnson's sister from Dallas during his second & final recording session
Suckin' on chili dogs outside the Tastee Freez
- John Mellencamp, "Jack and Diane" 1982
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
Johnny [Winter] is going to play with my band and shake the house up
- Muddy Waters
If you're watching me and Johnny Winter, the show was MENAT to be played in black and white
- Muddy Waters