Ma Rainey Quotes

A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.

The blues is life itself.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

I'm a blues guy at heart, so silly music isn't generally what I do. I'm a I'll-cry-as-my-guitar-gently-weeps kind of guy.

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

Blues was made for the recessed.

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

American blues can make you sad.

I've always had a great love for the blues.

The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.

After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.

I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.