Blues Quote by Ritchie Blackmore

I will argue with anyone in New York: we have the best pizza in Chicago and the best blues.

— Michael T. Weiss

Johnny Winter doesn't know the word 'subtlety.' But it works, it works.

— Butch Trucks

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of…

— Alexis Korner

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

— Derek Bailey

We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in…

— Rick Derringer

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

— Stephen Stills

Blues players are around for 50 years, and that's just fine.

— Dickey Betts

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

— Johnny Rivers

My heroes were gospel blues players like Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, not whoever was number one.

— Chris Rea

The amazing thing about Sweets [Edison] was that he exactly spoke the way that he played! He was really unique, the one and only.…

— Ray Brown

I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.

— Dimebag Darrell

Back in the day in my teens I was listening to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery a lot; before that I was listening to…

— Larry Carlton