British Quote by Alexis Korner

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

— Willie Dixon

Lonnie Donegan and the folk movement were responsible for a lot of the spread of the blues in England. The group Them with Van…

— Rory Gallagher

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

— Ritchie Blackmore

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

— Jimmy Page

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

— Edgar Winter

I was just fascinated by the blues.

— Rory Gallagher

There's a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to each other…

— Robert Christgau

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

— Michael Tippett

I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any…

— Jelly Roll Morton

“The Bluesis the roots of all American music.”

— Willie Dixon

British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.

— Joe Bonamassa

Being raise in England, we were all raised on blues and country.

— John Waite