Essence Quote by Ted Alexandro

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

— Odetta

The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled…

— Ry Cooder

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think…

— Mick Fleetwood

The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its…

— Ralph Ellison

The form of the blues helps us express our joys, our fears, our - anything you want to express. And it helps you get…

— Dion DiMucci

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

— Jason Momoa

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

— Howlin' Wolf

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

When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's…

— Ike Turner

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

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

— Steve Miller

My definition of the blues is the naked cry of the human heart longing to be in union with God.

— Dion DiMucci