Blue Quote by Keith Getty

Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply…

— Paul Zollo

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.

— Robert James Waller

Country music came from Black people - it all started with the blues and bluegrass.

— Jimmie Allen

I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music…

— Hozier

Ireland was an idyllic place for us as children. We had all these cousins and all this green countryside. Given what I've written about…

— Martin McDonagh

Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the…

— Imelda May

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

— Chuck Berry

British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.

— Joe Bonamassa

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

— James Weldon Johnson

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits

— Willie Dixon

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

— Caroline Corr

I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs.

— Hozier