…Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are…

I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.

— Benjamin Booker

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

Eric Clapton was such a great player. He sounds like he's Freddie King or someone like that. He plays the roots of blues and…

— Orianthi

I remember listening to like gospel-y blues tunes. I'd just listen to the rhythm and the music was upbeat. Always upbeat if you get…

— Michael Kiwanuka

It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head.

— Charlie Musselwhite

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

— Nina Simone

My heroes were gospel blues players like Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, not whoever was number one.

— Chris Rea

The music that I have always liked has always been more rooted in anger or sadness or alienation or any of those inspirational factors…

— DJ Shadow

Depending on what you allow, you can still get the blues, man. I'm still trying to figure out where the blues really lies, where…

— Christian Scott

I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.

— King Tuff

When you look at so much of what we all love, there's either soul-based to it, or it's the blues. It's really the beginnings…

— Paul Weller

I never liked blues and I really didn’t like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or…

— Stevie Wonder

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think…

— Mick Fleetwood

You know Bakersfield was full of workers from the south, from Texas and Arkansas, and they brought their gospel and blues with them. And…

— Gregory Porter