Blues Quote by Keith Richards

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick…

— Boz Scaggs

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

— Izzy Stradlin

For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz and you…

— Steve Miller

It's so satisfying as a guitar player to play stuff that's related to the blues.

— Paul Gilbert

I love the blues, but I love a lot of music.

— Anand Mahindra

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and…

— Mick Taylor

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

— Dusty Hill

Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in…

— Angus Young

You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When…

— Jack White

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll

— Johnny Winter

The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived…

— B. B. King

I'm not committed to putting myself up for a blues guitarist, even though I love playing the blues.

— Jeff Beck