Robert Cray famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

#Politics #Lawyer #Boat
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 #Infidelity #Midnight
She was just another notch on my guitar.
-- Robert Cray

#Guitar #Notches
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 #Age #Vote
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 #Writing #Thinking
I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.
-- Robert Cray

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

#Italian #Thai #Cooks
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 #Love Life #Trying

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