As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great…

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past…

— Susannah McCorkle

With a few exceptions like Kraftwerk, most great 20th century Western music is in some way American-based. And the great paradox of America, the…

— Steve Erickson

In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it.…

— Dave Holland

D.C. is a great place. The music, jazz, has always been great here, the restaurants have always been fantastic here. And there's been a…

— George Lopez

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

— Edgar Winter

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

— Alexis Korner

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

— Nina Simone

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

— Jack Nicholson

Blues and jazz are such a root to music.

— Donovan

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

— Hozier

The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to…

— Russell Simmons

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

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

— Carmen McRae