178 Quotes About Blues

I am truly honored that the Blues have elected to retire my number, and I'm flattered to join the list of players who have been recognized before me. I will always consider myself part of the Blues family and will look back on my playing days here with fond memories of my teammates, my coaches, the staff and, last but not least, the fans.

It was the names of these four men that reminded me why playing for the Blues is as good as it gets in the National Hockey League.

It's good to see them back in the seats. This season hurts the Blues fans and there's a lot of them out there that are staying away. We want them to come back and I think that's going to happen here real soon.

My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels.

There's an incredibly rich rhythm- and-blues and blues tradition in Detroit.

The WRKR Budweiser Blues Series has been keeping Southwest Michigan entertained for 11 years now. The series this year is proud to have five nominees for the 2006 Blues Music Awards, formerly known as the W.C. Handy Awards.

The only blues record I ever had was Bessie Smith. Mississippi Delta Blues, I think they called that. She had it put together beautiful.

The allure of the kind of blues that this town is known for is still here. If the crowd at one of these venues claps for me, that will be more satisfying than a venue in a large city.

I think initially people like Johnny Lang, they seemed to be a novelty at the time but nowadays there are so many blues guitarists.