After Quote by John Hunter

I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed…

— Dimebag Darrell

A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.

— Howlin' Wolf

I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me.

— Jason Momoa

The blues is not a plaything like some people think they are.

— Son House

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

— John Mayer

My definition of the blues is the naked cry of the human heart longing to be in union with God.

— Dion DiMucci

Nowadays blues in particular has a wide, wide, wide, wide net of everything that's called blues. I think if somebody's coming to it in…

— Joe Louis Walker

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits…

— Steven Tyler

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

— Albert Murray

Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.

— Elton John

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

— James Weldon Johnson

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

— Paul Rodgers