Blues Players Quotes

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.

— Ritchie Blackmore

Blues players are around for 50 years, and that's just fine.

— Dickey Betts

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

— Johnny Rivers

I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.

— Dimebag Darrell

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

— Derek Bailey

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

— Stephen Stills

My heroes were gospel blues players like Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, not whoever was number one.

— Chris Rea

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of…

— Alexis Korner

Back in the day in my teens I was listening to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery a lot; before that I was…

— Larry Carlton

The amazing thing about Sweets [Edison] was that he exactly spoke the way that he played! He was really unique, the one…

— Ray Brown