Blues Quote by Johnny Winter

There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole Lot of…

— John Lennon

Part of me feels it's better we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

— Ad-Rock

The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.

— Izzy Stradlin

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n'…

— David Johansen

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz,…

— Jim Sullivan

Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a…

— Johnny Winter

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be…

— Michael Giles

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.

— Brian Eno

You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The…

— Truman Capote

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

— Kevin Nealon

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

— Janis Joplin

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else…

— B. B. King