Boston Quote by George Wein

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

— Jonny Lang

Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.

— Ralph Metcalfe

It's good to see young kids getting into the blues.

— Joe Bonamassa

Someone told me once that blues is like whiskey. They keep whiskey in the barrel for so many years, and then they talk about…

— Buddy Guy

I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had…

— Koko Taylor

It's so satisfying as a guitar player to play stuff that's related to the blues.

— Paul Gilbert

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

— Johnny Winter

“What I can play is blues. She was never that into blues. I can salve with Lightning and Cotton, BB and Clapton and Stevie…

— Peter Heller

“We were in Mississippi. We’d been playing this music, and it had all been very respectful, but then we were actually there sniffing it.…

— Keith Richards

My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home…

— Alvin Lee

When you think blues, you think BB King. Even a young kid can look at a picture of BB King and say, 'the blues.'…

— Joe Bonamassa

I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music…

— Hozier