Robert Cray quotes

Robert Cray quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.”
-- Robert Cray

#Real Quotes #Flower Quotes #Tired Quotes
“All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.”
-- Robert Cray

#Style Quotes #Chance Quotes #Copies Quotes
“In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.”
-- Robert Cray

#Play Quotes #Order Quotes #Able Quotes
“I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.”
-- Robert Cray

#War Quotes #People Quotes #Greed Quotes
“I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.”
-- Robert Cray

#Character Quotes #Jamaicans Quotes
“Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.”
-- Robert Cray

Source : Song: Nothin' But a Woman, Album: Strong Persuader, 1986

#Politics Quotes #Lawyer Quotes #Boat Quotes
“Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me.”
-- Robert Cray

#Fall Quotes #Infidelity Quotes #Midnight Quotes
“She was just another notch on my guitar.”
-- Robert Cray

Source : Song: Right Next Door, Album: Strong Persuader

#Guitar Quotes #Notches Quotes
“I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.”
-- Robert Cray

#Political Quotes #Age Quotes #Vote Quotes
“Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!”
-- Robert Cray

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes
“I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.”
-- Robert Cray

#Melody Quotes
“I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.”
-- Robert Cray

#Italian Quotes #Thai Quotes #Cooks Quotes
“Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors, who were trying to get back at the overseers. Blues is different for my generation.”
-- Robert Cray

#Jobs Quotes #Love Life Quotes #Trying Quotes

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