Convinced Quote by Johnny Winter

At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did…

— Gregg Allman

I kept playing blues-based music all during the 1980s, and it was tough.

— Rory Gallagher

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

— Muddy Waters

Blues has always been a huge part of my life.

— Steve Miller

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

— L'Wren Scott

Hearing the blues changed my life.

— Van Morrison

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

— Gil Scott-Heron

My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records.

— Jimmy Page

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make…

— Charlie Haden

I never had the blues; the blues always had me.

— Brownie McGhee

The blues has been in my life since I was little.

— Lenny Henry

I was living and working with adult men who were playing a real art form. And I had been playing blues all my life.…

— Steve Miller