Blues music Quote by Dave Van Ronk

Blues was made for the recessed.

— Eric Burdon

I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.

— Marc Bolan

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

— Albert Murray

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

— Howlin' Wolf

The blues needs to be everything to you, otherwise it's not going to come across. That's what I think.

— Gary Moore

Depending on what you allow, you can still get the blues, man. I'm still trying to figure out where the blues really lies, where…

— Christian Scott

I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they…

— George Carlin

If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought…

— Nina Simone

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

— Count Basie

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

— Anonymous

The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we…

— Peter Tork

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

— Willie Dixon