Apollo Quote by Dion DiMucci

I kept playing blues-based music all during the 1980s, and it was tough.

— Rory Gallagher

I was just fascinated by the blues.

— Rory Gallagher

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on…

— Tom Waits

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not…

— John C. Reilly

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

— John Goodman

I was living and working with adult men who were playing a real art form. And I had been playing blues all my life.…

— Steve Miller

The first time I ever heard the blues, my parents had a stack of records that they weren't using anymore. I found them when…

— Ato Essandoh

There's a more experimental album that follows that, which is like Black Magic and While You Were Sleeping. Then there's a return to jazz,…

— Jose James

I developed a passion for American blues music, and I'd buy albums from a record shop in Soho, which I played on my Dansette…

— David Essex

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

— David Lynch

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

— Henry Rollins

We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements…

— Mick Ralphs