All jazz comes from blues. Blues first.

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

Charlie Parker said, 'Jazz comes from who you are, where you've been, what you've done. If you don't live it, it won't come out…

— David Dellinger

There are happy blues, sad blues, lonesome blues, red-hot blues, mad blues, and loving blues. Blues is a testimony to the fullness of life.

— Corey Harris

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

— Willie Dixon

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

— Count Basie

You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music.

— Logic

People should hear the pure blues - the # blues we used to have when we had no money.

— Muddy Waters

Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im playing…

— Muddy Waters

I never had the blues; the blues always had me.

— Brownie McGhee

Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.

— Wynton Marsalis

Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the…

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart.

— Willie Smith

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

— Van Morrison

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

— Wynton Marsalis

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