Blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
-- Jimi Hendrix
Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
-- Peter Tork
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
-- Jimi Hendrix
I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.
-- Morgan Freeman
The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
-- Jack Nicholson
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song,
inspiration, feeling, and understanding. -- Willie Dixon
The blues is about .. we are all in this together.
The blues is the foundation.
The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz,
are the walls of the blues. - Luther Allison
When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is,
then you have to change that question.
Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo,
you call it rhythm and blues. -- Little Richard
I like to listen to the blues and some classical music.
-- Peter Tork
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
-- Duke Ellington
I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
-- Eddie Money
Once I was checking into a hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said,
'You play blues. That music is so sad.'
I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said,
'You didn't play one sad song.' -- Buddy Guy
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
-- Edgar Winter
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