12-Bar Blues Quotes

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

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

There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.

I started on acoustic guitar after I heard Leadbelly and Big Bill Broonzy.

Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.

Blues is the first step to get to jazz.

From the first album, we've had songs like 'The Jack' that are blues based. We also did it in 'Ride On,' where we went into the blues.

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

I'm interested in Qawwali and the blues.

My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it.

A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.

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.

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

This be an empty world without the blues.

'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.

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

I was just fascinated by the blues.

Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in Little Richard and Chuck Berry.

Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.