The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta…

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

— Hozier

For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level.

— Scott Henderson

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

Blues and jazz is our American music.

— Leslie Uggams

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

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

— Carmen McRae

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

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

— Edgar Winter

Blues and jazz are such a root to music.

— Donovan

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

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

— Edgar Winter

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

— Jerry Hall

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

— Little Milton

I feel like so much of what happened in the Delta over the decades since slavery was abolished seems much closer in the Delta,…

— Jesmyn Ward