"I’m not the first to say, but the blues got soul. The blues is a feeling and I felt it the first time I heard it! And I can go years hearing a song - and while understanding the lyrics, not really having lived them."

JJ Appleton: The Blues Breathin'…

"I have no fear about the future but I hope se day soon all totalitarian regime and radical governments leave their people alone and let to make decision about their life, music, appearance, religion...etc."

Ballgard: Making Funky Fun Music…

"The Beatnik scene in the late 50s, early 60s with jazz and poetry in the coffee houses had with the Folk Revival changed to "Folkniks" listening to folk singers in the coffee houses."

Jesper…

"Get the Corporations out of the music business. Put the rebellion back into it. Make it art once again. We need more Warhol’s, John Lennon’s, Keith Richards, Bowie’s Hendrix’s. No more Beyoncé’s, and processed shit just to sell more crap we don’t need."

Pat Axe: Steady Rolling…

"The Blues, in my opinion, is the down and out and never going to get up again feeling that your mind tricks you with when your life isn’t going according to your plan."

Robert Hubele: Poet Of The Blues

Musician,…

"I miss most the music without theory no rules but feel it. I fear for the future is people will not be able to recognize a good musician from an actor."

Benz Blues: Nothing But The Blues…

"Three things I have never wasted my energy on, Religion, Politics & Other worldly crapola which divides people from one another. All I know is music makes us all swing and people must realize and respect this fact first."

Bunny Henry: The Bridge Of Worlds…

"Right now the music business is at it’s absolute worst regarding distribution and physical stores and downloading, so I would try to change EVERYTHING about it right now! ...get back to basics!! Same with the comics."

George Hansen: Let The Good Old Times Roll …

"Many of the counterculture’s progressiveness regarding sexuality, drugs and technical innovation (in writing and art) have been absorbed into the mainstream of Western culture and its value has been appreciated."

Alexander Adams: Visual Literature…

"Music is the great unifier... it's one of the glues that holds us all together. It's sad how popular music has really been de-politicized the last twenty years or so."

Dan Stuart: By Any Means Necessary…

"The blues are the expression of a people against slavery, prejudice, against political and social cancers. It calls for union and fellowship. It has left a huge print in the whole world, it’s so heavy! We must truly treasure it."

The Ramblers: Gypsie Good Times…

"I think that comics can bring people from different cultures together, but I think that changing the ethnicity of existing characters shouldn't be done just for politically correct reasons. (A white guy playing Blade? No Way!)."

Eddie Price: Dream, Art &…

"If you play or listen to blues music of any kind, you are in some way honouring the obscure and undervalued people who invented just about all modern music that it is possible for a decent human being to like!"

Mark Harrison: Brand-New Roots Blues…

"I think the love of music is the one thing that we all have in common. Great music inspires us, it makes us get up in the morning and move forward. We are all one and come from the same place, you are me and I am you. All our needs are the same."

Leroy Miller: Dirty Blues Off The…

"I would recommend young people to listen as much as possible to older people, and learn about how they lived and what they had experienced. It seems like nobody is really interested in “old stories”, like I was once. Times change, people change. Not for the good, I think."

Marko Nakari: Tropic of Uncle…

"I miss integrity and originality. I hear the same thing over and over, same recycled ideas, same perfectly executed carbon copies of things done by better people. I miss the commitment creative people had before the hipster disaster fell on mankind."

Boaz Zippor: The Blues Of…

"The blues is a culture that wants to escape imposition and order. In my opinion, it is the culture most antiestablishment that there is because it doesn't offer a solution for everyone, but reminds us that the solution resides in each and everyone of us."

Pig Fat: Blues Evolution With Deep…

"The ethos of jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, hip hop and all kinds of musical genres have inspired literary content, and literary form as well. In the case of comics, I think there are so many ways in which the structure of comics can be compared to that of music."

Julian Peters: Rhymes, Strips &…

"Blues music has largely lost most of its traditional cultural roots that provided solace and inspiration and instilled tension and release, hope, joy and sadness in generation after generation. Their struggles and history are intertwined within the blues music."

Dusty Scott: The Blues of…

"I believe there are Irish, Jewish, Middle Eastern, Tibetan, Indo and Asian blues as much as there are Afro-American blues… It’s not about race or culture, it’s about truth and education."

Moondog AlleyTyn: The Blues Sounds…