After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.

— Joe Bonamassa

Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long…

— John Hunter

I think you can hear the Delta blues thing in something like the intro to 'Heaven in This Hell,' which has that down-home acoustic…

— Orianthi

My wife and I went and saw John McLaughlin years ago playing at some club, and it made me feel uncomfortable. It made me…

— Cliff Williams

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

— Damien Chazelle

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

— Herbie Hancock

When I was a young teenager, it was all about The Clash for me and that sort of English punk stuff. Then the Clash…

— Greg Kurstin

Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical…

— Dave Brubeck

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

— Johnny Ramone

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

“Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used to tell…

— David Mutti Clark

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

— Alvin Lee

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

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