If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.
John Lee Hooker

If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up.
Dexter Gordon

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Keith Richards

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.
Alexis Korner

In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.
Luther Allison

In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.
Rick Derringer

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
Barry Gibb

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.
James Weldon Johnson

It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.
Robert Quine

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.
Peter Tork

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
Eric Clapton

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.
Jim Sullivan

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.
Neil Young

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.
Charlie Haden

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
B. B. King

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.
Ritchie Blackmore

Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.
John Lee Hooker

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
Brownie McGhee

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
Steve Cropper

Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.
Etta James