About Quote by Jesse Stone

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

— Ray Charles

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

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

— Jimmy Page

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been…

— Dizzy Gillespie

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

Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it…

— Toni Morrison

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

— Princess Nokia

A lot of those early blues records and soul records were pretty much live. It was what it was, and they had goofs and…

— Paul Rodgers

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

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

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come…

— Jack White

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

— Miguel