History Quote by Jon Stewart

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

— Princess Nokia

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

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

— Jimmy Page

Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done…

— Jesse Stone

The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a basis of…

— Sherley Anne Williams

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

— Willie Dixon

Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the unfamiliar, in…

— Joe Morton

Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my…

— Robert Cray

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

“And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were still in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that…

— August Wilson

You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music.

— Logic