"Music can have a huge impact on society. Just look at the Blues Revival of the 1960s which led to the counter-cultural rock music which in turn affected politics and society in general.  I want music to make people think and feel."

Bruce Katz: American Music Connections…

"Undoubtedly, it had a huge impact of bringing people together and transcending the racial problems of the past. There’s something tribal about music that supersedes superficial barometers of judgment. As a musician and songwriter, I want my music to do that indescribable thing that happens when you hear a song you love. To touch people's souls."

Until The Sun: Roomful of Blues…

"Music, like every art, needs to make people think, laugh and most importantly: feel! Music and musicians are the perfect representation of community, respect, diversity and even while we're still competing! Sound also has an ambiguous nature that allows for the listener's personal perspective to filter and be a part of the creative process...if the musicians play in artful way. We all have an Orpheus complex. It is my hope that our example can affect…

"The impact of music on the socio-political, racial, spiritual environment is that it makes people think, and feel, and consider a different way of looking at things and feeling about things. That can lead to action which can then make an actual positive change in whatever the situation is."

David Sancious: Eyes Wide Open

World-renowned performing…

"Music can be such a driving force for good. Because it plays on a person's emotions, it can also make evil attractive. It's a decision we all make every day in so many little and big ways. Are we on the side of good for the world, or are we angry and on the side of destruction? Young people many times don't understand the power of the music they listen to."

Bruce Brookshire: Southern. Rock.…

"All human induced suffering would end. Those individuals would recognize the patterns that create suffering for what they are."

Bruce Riley: Behold And See...And Beyond

Chicago-based artist…

"The blues is timeless when you hear a classic it's as fresh as the first time you heard it – it still is a feeling, an experience. It's also an expression of the moment through improvisation."

Bruce Stringkiller: Monsieur Feelgood …

"I miss the mistakes! All the old great Rock albums have tons of mistakes on them. They were human! Now, every note is fixed, tuned, and quantized with Pro Tools or whatever."

Pete Bremy: Integrate the Groove…

"The best blues to me always came from older black men who lived either in the countryside of the South, or in the Chicago blues clubs."

Bruce Brookshire: Southern Mission

Bruce Brookshire and…

"I miss the era itself. There were so many good bands and places to work. Nowadays it is mostly part time. I think the future of music is in trouble unless something new comes along to shake things up."

Wayne Bruce: Georgia on my Mind…

"Jazz and Blues are elemental in all vital modern music. Pop may come and go, but the Blues lives on."

Bruce Bears: The Blues of Liberty

His work with blues and jazz master Duke…

"Don’t go with the flow. The majority is usually wrong."

Bruce Louis Dodson: Citizen of the world

Bruce Dodson is a sculptor, photographer and writer of fiction and poetry in Seattle, WA. He was born in Alton,…

"Appreciating Blues is maybe the best way I know how to connect with other cultures/ethnic groups in America."

The Bluebirds: Southern Blues Brothers

Louisiana’s #1 Rhythm & Blues / Rockin’ Soul Trio…

"Appreciating Blues is maybe the best way I know how to connect with other cultures/ethnic groups in America."

Bruce Flett: Southern Bluebird

Bruce is a veteran musician with the…

"When I first heard real blues, it just felt right – the point of blues wasn’t to be fashionable, but to say something truthful."

Keith Wyatt: Blues is the truth…

"Garcia Lorca said that Flamenco had a quality he called Duende, consciousness of the presence of death.  I think that the Blues has that same quality and speaks to the depths of our beings."

Bruce Barthol:…

"The Fun-key is every key that makes you feel good."

Bernie Worrell: Peace & Harmony …

"The '60s. There was an evolutionary jump in consciousness around the globe."

Paul Krassner: The Alchemy Of Transforming Fantasy Into Reality

Paul Krassner is an author, journalist,…

"My best songs come to me in dreams and then when I wake up, I can’t write them down fast enough."

Big Shanty: The Blues of Dreams

Renegade blues-rocker Big Shanty’s sonic rain of acid…