When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man. – Albert Murray
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music. – B. B. King
Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies – all of ’em. – Butch Trucks
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
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 parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. – Alexis Korner
Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed. – Alberta Hunter
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music. – Aaron Neville
Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band. – George Thorogood
To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier. – Geezer Butler
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, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the ’80s or whatever – that is kinda gone, and that’s just terrifying to me. – Cat Power
I’ve always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying. – Diane Sawyer
Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together. – Dimebag Darrell
I’ve always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I’ve wanted to make a record like that for years. – Nathaniel Rateliff
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 suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you’re young, it’s hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you. – Nick Lowe
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. – Mark Knopfler
My template for most songs is ‘Is this inspiring?’ and with the blues it so often is. – Mick Fleetwood
I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers. – Eddie Floyd
The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me. – Eric Burdon