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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

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

— Jimmy Page

My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records.

— Jimmy Page

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 don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there…

— Mose Allison

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

— Michael Tippett

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are…

— David Edwards

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

Early on, before rock 'n' roll, I listened to big band music - anything that came over the radio - and music played by…

— Bob Dylan

By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.

— Hozier

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