Foundation Quote by Gary Clark, Jr

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

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

— Willie Dixon

Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music.

— Paul Rodgers

I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me.

— Jason Momoa

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back…

— Ronnie Wood

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

— Ted Alexandro

Nowadays blues in particular has a wide, wide, wide, wide net of everything that's called blues. I think if somebody's coming to it in…

— Joe Louis Walker

Blues has always been a huge part of my life.

— Steve Miller

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

— Steve Miller

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

All music is the blues. All of it.

— George Carlin