Flow Quote by Billy Gibbons

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on…

— Tom Waits

A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.

— Howlin' Wolf

The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its…

— Ralph Ellison

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

— John Lee Hooker

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back…

— Ronnie Wood

Blues is a very physical music.

— Hozier

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

— Ted Alexandro

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

— Michael Tippett

Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music.

— Paul Rodgers

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

— Odetta

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

— Nick Cave

Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.

— David Edwards