Band Quote by Steve Winwood

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 was living and working with adult men who were playing a real art form. And I had been playing blues all my life.…

— Steve Miller

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

— Jimmy Page

I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of…

— Robert Plant

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else…

— B. B. King

I was just fascinated by the blues.

— Rory Gallagher

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

— Michael Tippett

British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.

— Joe Bonamassa

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

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

After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles and Ella…

— Ian Gillan