Blues Quote by Joe Bonamassa

“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

...the blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to…

— Jimmy Page

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

— Joe Bonamassa

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

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

— Butch Trucks

When you think blues, you think BB King. Even a young kid can look at a picture of BB King and say, 'the blues.'…

— Joe Bonamassa

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music…

— Alberta Hunter

People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

— Etta James

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

— Edgar Winter

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

— Stephen Stills

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

— John Lee Hooker

For a musician to be good, he has to have humanity and care about the other guy. And as for blues - in a…

— Harry Dean Stanton