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Music Quotes

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.

I’ve always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.
- Robbie Robertson, The Band
There was a set list from my first band, the Black Snake Moan, written on a little card – Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy, Chuck Berry.
- Robert Plant
I knew without askin' she was into the blues
- The Grateful Dead, "Scarlett Begonias", 1974
She’s thirsty, get her some acid!
- Jimi Hendrix
My thing is more in a blues vein: long, rambling, basic and primitive.
- Jim Morrison, The Doors
Let me tell ya something about Jerry Lee Lewis, ladies and gentlemen: I am a rock and rollin’, country-and-western, rhythm and blues-singin’ mother******
- Jerry Lee Lewis
No Lead Belly, No Beatles.
- George Harrison, Guitarist, The Beatles
Hard Rock has unquestionably hit its all-time low
- Rolling Stone's review of AC/DC's first release
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.
- Tom Waits, "Step Right Up", 1976
If it sounds good, it IS good.
- Pianist/Composer/Bandleader Duke Ellington
It's a magic car.
- John Landis, Blues Brothers movie director, on how The Bluesmobile could fly
Ain't there one damn song that can make me break down and cry?
- David Bowie, Young Americans, 1975
Soon enough time will tell about the circus and the wishing well
- Jimi Hendrix
I grabbed that turkey by the wing and out the window I went flyin'
- Pink Anderson
I had never heard the word 'superstar' but when I think about it today, I was a superstar tractor driver. I loved it.
- B.B. King
I was workin' on a plantation. I picked cotton, I copped cotton, I drove trucks, I plowed the mules, I did all of it.
- Muddy Waters
I've been waiting a long time for this.
- Etta James, on recording her smash hit debut album, "At Last"
You're my blue sky, you're my sunny day
- The Allman Brothers
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
- Keith Richards
Find me playing til sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it.
- Muddy Waters