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.
Hi, the Muddy shirt arrived today, very nice one! I'm glad that it worked out well and I won't hesitate to order again or recommend your store to friends.
- Andreas G., Basel, Switzerland
When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Jazz multi-instrumentalist
Add Some Music to Your Day
- The Beach Boys, 1970
If you can't feel the blues, you got a hole in your soul.
- Howlin' Wolf
I've got the moves like Jagger
- Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera, "Moves Like Jagger", 2011
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
Whoa, smokestack lightnin', shinin' just like gold, why don't you hear me cryin'?
- Howlin' Wolf, Smokestack Lightnin, 1956
You are raw soul.
- Jim Stewart, founder, Stax Records
Johnny [Winter] is going to play with my band and shake the house up
- Muddy Waters
Johnny Gimble once said that there's only two songs ever written, "The Star-Spangled Banner" and the "blues." Bands that I liked a lot, country music players play jazz.
- Willie Nelson
The blues tells a story.
- John Lee Hooker
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
- Bob Dylan, "Like A Rolling Stone", 1965
Most people don’t know that [the late MGs bassist] Duck Dunn’s son Jeff was The [Black] Crowes' sound guy...
- Steve Cropper
When I go onstage I want to honor the great entertainers that came before. I want to honor Frank Sinatra and Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix and the Xavier Cugat Orchestra and John Coltrane
- Michael "Flea" Peter Balzary, Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues
- Albert Collins, Adventures in Babysitting, 1987
It aint easy to get to heaven when you're goin' down
- David Bowie - "It Ain't Easy" (1972)
We live for just these twenty years, do we have to die for the fifty more?
- David Bowie, Young Americans, 1975
They call me rude, some dude's fiery attitude, claimin' I boast, smoke, sometimes sing the blues
- Chuck D, Public Enemy
In 1935 Robert Johnson recorded a song called "Terraplane Blues", this is a kind of Led Zeppelin Terraplane Blues, it's called Trampled Under Foot
- Robert Plant at Led Zeppelin Reunion, London's O2 Arena, Dec 10th, 2007
The sound that you're listening to is from my guitar named Lucille
- B.B. King