I started in blues bands when I was 15.

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

— Gary Rossington

Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.

— Fred Armisen

Country music came from Black people - it all started with the blues and bluegrass.

— Jimmie Allen

A lot of people don't know this, but I started out as a blues-based player, and then, when I realized after playing 18 hours…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be…

— Michael Giles

I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm into rock…

— Georgia May Jagger

When I was about 16, I spent a couple of months playing at clubs in Italy with a blues band. I'll never forget stepping…

— David Essex

“The guitar breathed. It inhaled and exhaled, and music filled the shop as the instrument picked the heartbreak of generations.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose

Bands are like relationships, you know. You are kind of in a relationship with a bunch of people at one time, but this feels…

— Ali Koehler

There was a lot of camaraderie among the bands. I remember a lot of times when I'd be driving up Laurel Canyon and pass…

— June Millington

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

— Ikue Mori

I grew up with my dad's music, so my introduction to rock was Alice Cooper and Cinderella and Dio and Black Sabbath, so I…

— Lzzy Hale

I'd been playing in bands for something like seven years at this point. And we were always trying to get ahead, trying to rehearse…

— Aerosmith

There are bands that I am friends with, who will invite me up on stage. Like Les Savy Fav, who have had me on…

— Fred Armisen

As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?

— Thomas Beecham