My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to…

I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and…

— Hayley Atwell

My family is a praying family, a Christian family.

— Magic Johnson

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

— Jay McShann

If you can play the blues, you can do anything.

— Ray Charles

When I picked up my guitar, I spent the first day learning the chord E, the second day A, then B7, and all of…

— Ian Gillan

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

— John Lee Hooker

I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel…

— Mick Ralphs

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

— Luther Allison

I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of love songs…

— David Edwards

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not…

— John C. Reilly

There was a rumour that I was buying Gibson. It circulated around the Internet... And I just go, 'How well off do you think…

— Joe Bonamassa

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.

— David Gilmour

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

— Dexter Gordon

I just play blues for fun.

— Howlin' Wolf

My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.

— Miles Davis