Born Quote by Ralph Metcalfe

Coming up in Chicago, we heard a lot of blues.

— Curtis Mayfield

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing…

— Muddy Waters

Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im playing…

— Muddy Waters

I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed…

— Dimebag Darrell

A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.

— Howlin' Wolf

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

I play blues, sure, but don't call me a bluesman

— Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

— Anonymous

The blues is not a plaything like some people think they are.

— Son House

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

— James Weldon Johnson

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

I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's…

— Wynton Marsalis