Ideas Quote by Cornel West

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that they adopt…

— August Wilson

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the…

— August Wilson

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

— Edgar Winter

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of…

— Alexis Korner

I play blues, sure, but don't call me a bluesman

— Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side…

— Cornel West

My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you…

— Eric Clapton

For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level.

— Scott Henderson

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.

— Jayne Cortez

I'm an artist, not a philosopher.

— Robert Wilson

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration... "Joy and Pain" - sit side by…

— Cornel West