When I'd hear something that sounded like I could follow it - most of those big band jazz tunes are blues anyway - I would hum it and play with the fiddle while I was humming.

What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.

Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'... Linda's the muse.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

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 thing.

What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.

What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote anything.

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

'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

I liked the 12-bar blues because everybody could play it, but they could also play it their own way, and they could express their own emotions using that as a structure.

But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.

I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

Blues is a very physical music.

Blues was made for the recessed.

I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva.

Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.

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

When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to be playing, but I couldn't play it. I couldn't get it out. I knew what I had to play; it was in my head. I could hear the notes in my head, but I couldn't get them out on the guitar.