American Quote by Daniel Pearl

The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled…

— Ry Cooder

People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about…

— Alberta Hunter

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

— Ted Alexandro

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

— Willie Dixon

Blues are the songs of despair,

— Mahalia Jackson

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

— Willie Dixon

Blues has always been a huge part of my life.

— Steve Miller

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

— Odetta

We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.

— Wynton Marsalis

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think…

— Mick Fleetwood

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far…

— Alexis Korner

The blues has been in my life since I was little.

— Lenny Henry