I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz and you…

— Steve Miller

People like to compartmentalise music, especially African-American music, but it's really one thing. One very wide thing. I mean, it's like all those great…

— Kamasi Washington

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

— Willie Dixon

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

— Anonymous

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

— James Weldon Johnson

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

— Willie Dixon

Blues and jazz is our American music.

— Leslie Uggams

“The Bluesis 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

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

— Michael Caine

It's just something I always dreamed about when I was little. I always thinking about playing in an All-American game, and the Under Armour…

— Deshaun Watson

My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When I first…

— Rebel Wilson

If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But…

— Emily Blunt

I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people,…

— Neil Patrick Harris

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

— Toby Jones