Drinking Quote by Nina Simone

Blues and jazz are such a root to music.

— Donovan

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

— Buddy Guy

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

Blues and jazz is our American music.

— Leslie Uggams

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

— Edgar Winter

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

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

— Robert Quine

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

— Jimmy Page

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

— Michael Tippett

All music is the blues. All of it.

— George Carlin

All jazz comes from blues. Blues first.

— Steve Miller

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.

— Martin Luther King, Jr