Along Quote by Tom Petty

“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

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears.…

— John Lee Hooker

The first time I ever heard the blues, my parents had a stack of records that they weren't using anymore. I found them when…

— Ato Essandoh

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

— David Lynch

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

— L'Wren Scott

I was just fascinated by the blues.

— Rory Gallagher

I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music…

— Hozier

I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

— R. Kelly

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

Blues has always been a huge part of my life.

— Steve Miller

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

— John Mayer

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