I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music…

— Hozier

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

— Kevin Nealon

I hope to be remembered as a very good jockey.

— Chantal Sutherland

Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song, most of…

— Jack White

But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

— Buddy Guy

I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a…

— William Eggleston

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

— Buddy Guy

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwrit er. In my book that means I…

— Justin Townes Earle

My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a…

— Charlie Wilson

My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to growing up was…

— Hozier

When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost…

— Jonathan Tropper

The whole of life itself expresses the blues. That's why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed in words…

— Willie Dixon

I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.

— Benjamin Booker