Blues music Quote by Buddy Guy

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

— Buddy Guy

When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues

— Ray Davies

“He already had a sense of the ways in which white blues fans were unduly aroused by the supreme otherness of black, prewar blues…

— Amanda Petrusich

But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time…

— Walter Becker

I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead. And I've…

— Chris Cornell

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

— Gary Clark, Jr

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.

— John Mayall

In terms of exploring an identity in the country music world, what I realized very quickly was that there are people who have been…

— Chris Carmack

Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead…

— Alex Clare

I've always had a love for music, and it developed as I learned jazz, blues, and gospel. And I performed with jazz singers in…

— Luke James

I love jazz and blues, where there's a structure, but a lot of the cool stuff is veering off the page and playing.

— Nick Nurse