Blues Quote by Bonnie Raitt

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

— Steve Miller

The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always…

— Gary Clark, Jr

The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.

— Izzy Stradlin

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I…

— Eric Clapton

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

— Wynton Marsalis

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

— Edgar Winter

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

— Willie Dixon

The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that…

— August Wilson

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

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

— Linda Barnes

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

— Paul Rodgers

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

— Edgar Winter