Blues Quote by Butch Trucks

For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz and you…

— Steve Miller

Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. . . But…

— Martin Scorsese

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

— Izzy Stradlin

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n'…

— David Johansen

What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what…

— Van Morrison

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

— Dusty Hill

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

— Jimmy Page

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

— Muddy Waters

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n'…

— David Johansen

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll

— Johnny Winter

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of…

— Keith Richards

Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in…

— Angus Young