African american Quote by Tim Cahill

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

— Princess Nokia

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

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 records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a basis of…

— Sherley Anne Williams

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

— Albert Murray

The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that…

— Duke Ellington

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

— Ray Charles

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

— Jimmy Page

I grew up in a largely black community during the '70s and '80s that scoffed at 'white' music. That music - folk, rock, some…

— Hilton Als

We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complained,…

— Jon Stewart

“If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work”

— Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

— Nina Simone