Blues and jazz is our American music.

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

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

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call…

— Duke Ellington

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call…

— Duke Ellington

I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of corporate America…

— Bernie Sanders

When I play live in restaurants and cafes, I don't play my own stuff. I play jazz and 'American Songbook' standards, and I'll fuse…

— Darren Criss

“The Bluesis the roots of all American music.”

— Willie Dixon

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

— Willie Dixon

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

— James Weldon Johnson

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

— Anonymous

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

— Willie Dixon

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

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree…

— Eric Burdon

Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when I started…

— Jorma Kaukonen