Alive Quote by Harry Dean Stanton

The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that…

— August Wilson

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

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

— Princess Nokia

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

— Steve Miller

The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a basis of…

— Sherley Anne Williams

We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complained,…

— Jon Stewart

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I…

— Eric Clapton

Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the unfamiliar, in…

— Joe Morton

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

— Edgar Winter

The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.

— Izzy Stradlin

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from…

— Willie Dixon