"The blues only bridges the gap if someone wants to be in harmony with the human race, at the same time it is powerful enough to change even the coldest of hearts."

John Holiday: Walk The Blues Line

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"Music brings cultures together. That is as true today as it was in the early days of rock."

Brian Perera: Pharaoh of Rock n' Roll

Brian Perera is the founder of Cleopatra Records, based in Los Angeles.…

"The blues is life. It's that simple. It connects us all. Everyone has things in their life that go wrong and the blues helps pull them through."

Shemekia Copeland: The Majesty of the Blues…

"My understanding of (American) Roots music is that musical influences arrived here with people from other countries and cultures, such as Africa and Europe, but then developed to such a degree that they are now considered distinctly (U.S.) American."

Bobbo Staron: Folk Songs &…

"In my darkest hours blues was a great friend. Blues is profound and spiritual, blues keeps you going when there’s nothing else."

Fred Voss: Walking With The Blues

Fred Voss…

"A blues musician can play the notes but the bluesman feels them. Like Robert Johnson sings in Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)..."

Reverend Freakchild: Blues Buddha

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"Greek music and Zydeco and Blues have something in common in my mind and that is that these types of music tell a story. They tell a history. They tell about pain and suffering and about joy and love."

Ellen Miller: Feelin The Blues…

"My fear is that humans are in their final throes and that it will be an ugly death. This is also my hope."

Skip Williamson: A Philosophical Anarchist

Mervyn "Skip" Williamson is an American underground…

"People to understand each other and not be at each other’s throat all the time, that we can find common ground, that we don’t have to be constantly at war with each other, that we don’t have to be concerned with how somebody else lives, that everyone’s different – I’d love to see that. Let’s give each other some room."

Charlie Daniels: The Southern Legend…

"The Blues is an art form that allows the artist to express those life lessons in song. That we all have things in life we have to deal with. Happiness, sorrow, good times and bad. No matter our race or nationality we are all members of the HUMAN race with similar but individual problems."…

"True American roots music has no cultural boundaries. It comes from all races of people because they come from a working community, working communities where they work together and depend on one another."

Matt Kinman: The Good Ole' Days…

"Technology has demystified music to the point where there is no sense of awe. There are good young players of course but few with any idea of history or context -therefore few have AUTHORITY."

Brian Parrish: The Rock n' Roll Traveller…

"That talent was more important than money. Nowadays what is real and what is artificial? In blues shouldn't care who are you or where you come from. It's more about what can you transmit with your instrument or your voice."

Boogie Riders: Bil-Ibaia-Bao Blues…

"The impact of music on literature is simple: to have a great song you always need two main ingredients, words and music. You can’t have one without the other. The relationship to music to socio-cultural is a much bigger topic, possibly even a book."

Paul Charles: Literary Notes &…

"Music certainly broke down cultural barriers, and the color of your skin didn’t matter when you moved your feet to a Ray Charles tune."

Mark Moormann:

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"I miss the authenticity of music of the past. The message was more about trying to make you feel good even when times were tough."

Dalannah & Owen: Classic Blues With A Modern Twist …

"Blues is the foundation of contemporary music, so simple and yet so powerful in emotions it simply delivers the performer and the listener from the most basic human emotion: pain, but it can be extremely joyful too."

Yiannis Monos: Burnin' Keys…

"My hopes are that more kids appreciate this music of Blues and Jazz and my fears are that they don’t!"

Noel Catura: American Sax & Soul

Musician extraordinaire on the tenor, alto and…

"The joys and heartaches of life, the love and the disappointments -- all the experiences of being alive on this blue planet are the elements that are expressed through blues music."

D.L. Duncan: The Iridescence of Blues…

"I think blues music would have a much bigger audience if this music would get more air time in radio and television. Younger people just don’t find this music."

Helge Tallqvist: Fin(n)ish Blues…