Form Quote by Jelly Roll Morton

I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any…

— Jelly Roll Morton

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

Because we grew up in Australia, to find information about a lot of blues guys, I used to go to the library and find…

— Angus Young

There's a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to each other…

— Robert Christgau

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

— Michael Tippett

We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.

— Butch Trucks

“The Blues are a simple music and I’m a simple man. But the Blues aren’t a science, the Blues can’t be broken down like…

— Johnny Ferreira

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened…

— Eric Clapton

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

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