ocean's snaking blues beyond the meadow

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back…

— John Lee Hooker

My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could…

— Steve Cropper

Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.

— Gary Rossington

Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and…

— Peter Tork

When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it from Fleetwood…

— Paul Weller

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make…

— Charlie Haden

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues…

— Robert Plant

Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long…

— John Hunter

An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.

— Gary Hoey

I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything.

— Orianthi

I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.

— Sam Shepard

“Grits Glossary blues \’blüz\ n: nothing but a good man singing about hardship, sorrow, and the things he’s done wrong--but sake’s alive, they make…

— Deborah Ford

That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.

— Joe Bonamassa

I love Las Vegas, but I never get a chance to play a club like the House of Blues. I guess we've graduated to…

— Joe Walsh

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened…

— Eric Clapton