Bars Quote by Buddy Guy

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

— Howlin' Wolf

If I'm, you know, in that mind-set and you're just playing in a bar and it's dark and you just dig in, I miss…

— Susan Tedeschi

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the…

— Van Morrison

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

— Jimmy Rushing

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

— Edgar Winter

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

— Gil Scott-Heron

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

— Denis Waitley

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

— Gary Clark, Jr

In the same way I wanted to learn how to play poker, I've always kind of been into the blues. It just seems like…

— Ryan Fleck

Someone told me once that blues is like whiskey. They keep whiskey in the barrel for so many years, and then they talk about…

— Buddy Guy

I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me.

— Jason Momoa

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

— Anonymous