Blues Quote by Willie Dixon

The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always…

— Gary Clark, Jr

I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the…

— Charles Burnett

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

— Willie Dixon

I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me.

— Jason Momoa

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

— Ted Alexandro

The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled…

— Ry Cooder

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on…

— Tom Waits

The blues is life itself.

— Billy Gibbons

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding.

— Willie Dixon

I was just fascinated by the blues.

— Rory Gallagher

The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its…

— Ralph Ellison

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