Intensity Quote by Jimmy Page

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

— Ted Alexandro

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back…

— Ronnie Wood

All music is the blues. All of it.

— George Carlin

The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the…

— Shawn Amos

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

Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music.

— Paul Rodgers

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

— Steve Miller

Blues is a very physical music.

— Hozier

Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.

— Wynton Marsalis

When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's…

— Ike Turner

The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always…

— Gary Clark, Jr

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that they adopt…

— August Wilson