Blues Quote by Tim Cahill

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened…

— Eric Clapton

I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any…

— Jelly Roll Morton

In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured…

— Jelly Roll Morton

When you think blues, you think BB King. Even a young kid can look at a picture of BB King and say, 'the blues.'…

— Joe Bonamassa

I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

— R. Kelly

Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in…

— Angus Young

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

— Michael Tippett

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

— Johnny Winter

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

“I discovered the blues from the English blues and then I wondered where all this stuff was coming from,” Mogg told Todd K. Smith…

— Neil Daniels

I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues.

— Lightnin' Hopkins

Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.

— Lemmy