100 years Quote by Jack White

It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized as this…

— Steve Winwood

I was just fascinated by the blues.

— Rory Gallagher

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

— Jimmy Page

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians,…

— Mick Taylor

The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out, and people weren't diggin' the blues as much.

— Johnny Winter

I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of…

— Robert Plant

Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done…

— Jesse Stone

“He already had a sense of the ways in which white blues fans were unduly aroused by the supreme otherness of black, prewar blues…

— Amanda Petrusich

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

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

— Youssou N'Dour

If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that we caught…

— B. B. King

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