Basically we're a blues oriented rock 'n' roll band…

Steven Segal's a cool dude. He's basically a blues man. He loves playing his guitar.

— Eddie Griffin

Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and that story requires songs. And…

— The Edge

The thing is, I was more blues-oriented, more of a purist than in the pop world. That led me into a folk rock trio…

— Denny Laine

What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what…

— Van Morrison

It's very easy to listen to one comment and make a snap judgment.

— Heather Dubrow

“If the truth was easy. Everyone would listen.”

— M.L. Shanahan

It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor…

— Gogen Yamaguchi

The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.

— Charles Clark

I'd go over to friends' houses and ask them to put on some Howlin' Wolf, and they wouldn't know what I was talking about.…

— Dusty Hill

You don't have to play the blues to play rock 'n' roll, but that's where, somewhere along the line, your influences came from. I…

— Dusty Hill

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

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 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

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