Black Quote by Mose Allison

I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta.

— Tony Todd

We don't sound like a Mississippi Delta band, but we play what we mean, and that's the spirit of the blues.

— John Popper

When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don't really have the…

— Gin Wigmore

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians,…

— Mick Taylor

The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out, and people weren't diggin' the blues as much.

— Johnny Winter

I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me.

— Jason Momoa

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

— Michael Tippett

When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi,…

— Rhymefest

The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a basis of…

— Sherley Anne Williams

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

— Princess Nokia

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

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues…

— Alex Chilton