Blues Quote by Michael McDonald

There's a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to each other…

— Robert Christgau

'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was done, feeling…

— Walter Becker

I'm a blues guy and I listen to blues all the time and blues is timeless.

— John Seagall

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened…

— Eric Clapton

I love early blues like Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, and Howlin' Wolf. I listened to the way these people sang, and it was just…

— Rob Halford

I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.

— Boy George

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

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

— Henry Rollins

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

— Michael Tippett

In my moments of down time I tend to listen to Blues.

— Horace Panter

I listened to all those blues records. They were great - Clapton, John Mayall. Then eventually I heard Genesis with Peter Gabriel, and I…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

— R. Kelly