Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.
Peter Tork

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.
James Young

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.
Archie Shepp

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
Billy Gibbons

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.
Mick Taylor

The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.
William Christopher Handy

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Jack Nicholson

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

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

The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together.
Peter Tork

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.
Jimmy Rushing

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
Henry Rollins

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.
Bob Mould

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.
Luther Allison

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.
Mick Taylor

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.
Jimmy Rushing

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.
John Lee Hooker

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
B. B. King

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.
Alan Lomax

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.
Alexis Korner