Beats Quote by L.A. Reid

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back…

— Ronnie Wood

Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music.

— Paul Rodgers

The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always…

— Gary Clark, Jr

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

— Willie Dixon

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

— Linda Barnes

Blues and jazz are such a root to music.

— Donovan

All music is the blues. All of it.

— George Carlin

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

— Michael Tippett

An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.

— Gary Hoey

Blues is a very physical music.

— Hozier

When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's…

— Ike Turner

I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.

— Boy George