Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's…

Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues…

— Larry Coryell

My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he…

— Judd Apatow

Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.

— Bonnie Raitt

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

— Bryan Ferry

Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in the urban…

— Russell Simmons

In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured…

— Jelly Roll Morton

When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues

— Ray Davies

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

— Buddy Guy

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

— James Weldon Johnson

The whole of life itself expresses the blues. That's why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed in words…

— Willie Dixon

I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and am a product of a family that were jazz aficionados and also very interested in progressive politics.…

— Jack Waters

Blues and jazz is our American music.

— Leslie Uggams

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n'…

— David Johansen

For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level.

— Scott Henderson

By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.

— Hozier