Blues Quote by Alexis Korner

Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.

— Ronnie Wood

I had a buddy that somehow got hold of a lot of American blues records, and I'd go over to his place and we'd…

— Cliff Williams

I developed a passion for American blues music, and I'd buy albums from a record shop in Soho, which I played on my Dansette…

— David Essex

American blues can make you sad.

— Daniel Pearl

Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply…

— Paul Zollo

When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going. Japanese street…

— William Gibson

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of…

— Nick Cave

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far…

— Alexis Korner

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

— Alexis Korner

When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it from Fleetwood…

— Paul Weller

I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.

— Sam Shepard

“Grits Glossary blues \’blüz\ n: nothing but a good man singing about hardship, sorrow, and the things he’s done wrong--but sake’s alive, they make…

— Deborah Ford