Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the…

You are in some songs that still get played on the radio when the DJ is feeling nostalgic. You are in a book once…

— I Wrote This For You

We've always tried to inspire ourselves, so to speak. In the beginning, that could mean just hearing your own songs played back to you…

— Taylor Goldsmith

Amy Winehouse asked me a while ago if I had written any new songs. I played her something, and when I had finished, she…

— Pete Doherty

I don't trust songs that can be played at a kid's party and a club at the same time. I just don't think it's…

— Sam Fender

Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I'm gone.

— Mary Gauthier

I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.

— Frank Fairfield

When you're traveling on a body of songs that you have played for many, many years, for most nights of your life - I'm…

— Ted Leo

The very first day that Hillary came over, we were working on a song called 'All We'd Ever Need.' But we never even thought…

— Dave Haywood

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so…

— Madeleine Peyroux

From an early age I've written songs and played the piano.

— Ella Henderson

See, we started out with a foundation of blues. But then we added people like Miles Davis and John Coltrane to the mix and…

— Butch Trucks

Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.

— Butch Trucks

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else…

— B. B. King

The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played the piano.…

— Jools Holland

I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of love songs…

— David Edwards