Becoming Quote by Mick Taylor

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of…

— Keith Richards

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

— Anand Mahindra

I've always been really into blues guitar. I feel like that comes out a little bit in my guitar parts: country, blues sort of…

— Declan McKenna

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

— John Seagall

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

— Paul Gilbert

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

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

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

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

— Gary Hoey

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

I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.

— Boy George