Acoustics Quote by Van Morrison

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

— Van Morrison

Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I…

— Van Morrison

As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.

— Roy Harper

There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England.... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar,…

— George Harrison

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

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

— Michael Tippett

An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.

— Gary Hoey

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's…

— Wynton Marsalis

Blues and jazz is our American music.

— Leslie Uggams

From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues,…

— Cat Power

There's a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to each other…

— Robert Christgau

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

— Chuck Berry