"It’s pretty hard to quantify in words. Blues, for me, is naked emotion. It’s beauty lies in it’s simplicity. There’s nothing plastic or contrived about blues."

Yuktarth Nagar: The Blues of Ganges…

"The Blues, to me, means singing about real emotions, pain, winning and losing, and really feeling every note of the music coming out of you."

Matt Harvey: Southern Blue-Eyed Soul

The Matt Harvey Band is…

"I think there will always be great music out there. I don't think great art will be the most visible or the most hearable, but with the Internet, discovery is so much easier. You can find new music in any genre anytime day or night."

Randy Resnick: Rare…

"I think the only thing one can learn from the blues is how to transform it into something good."

Johnnie Selfish & The Worried Men: Old-time Music, with Fresh Air

Johnnie Selfish & the Worried…

"The best blues artists always have a raw honesty in their music, so I learned to open myself up to a listener and pretty much play what I was feeling."

Warren Mendonsa: The Universe Has The Blues…

"I learned how much I enjoy expression through music. The blues is a great way to put expression and feeling into sound."

Bob Culbertson: The Stick of Creation

With well over 100,000 albums sold and…

"I think that in the modern urban digital world that we need more than ever to remember our human qualities. We need to laugh. We need to cry. We need direct contact with each other."

Jim Rooney: A Musical Odyssey in Roots…

"The Blues to me is the best way to express my feeling about things in life like Love, Anger, Happiness etc."

Tommy Schneller: Cream of the Crop

The singer and sax player Tommy Schneller and…

"Music and poetry are one and the same except one is spoken and one is sung."

Chris Gantry: Gypsy Dreamer Tales

Chris Gantry (Christopher Cedzich) was born December 29th, 1942 in Queens, New…

"Every time I play the blues, I find myself. It’s the easiest way of creating and sharing my emotions, thoughts and everything else that describes me. It’s my mirror."

Ashesh Dangol: Samadhi Blues

Ashesh…

"The blues is a musical mirror reflecting our lives back at us."

Steve Gardner: Muddy Waters Roots

Mississippi Roots and Bluesman Rambling Steve Gardner, based in Tokyo, Japan, plays…

"Unlike some of the negative messages found in much music today, blues music is full of love, some sorrow, and many lessons. You just have to listen!"

Terri Robbins: Stained Glass of Blues

Terri Robbins is…

"The blues is about life, the human experience down into all it’s cracks and crevices, the stuff that connects us all no matter the distance of time, place, culture."

Jerry Zolten: Chimpin' the Blues …

"Human suffering is universal and timeless, luckily all good art comes from this place of sadness, even the happy stuff. One of the most cathartic things someone can do is create art."

Rollie Tussing: Roots Culture of Creation…

"The blues is story. It’s raw emotion, a perfect feel and the power to move others."

Toots Lorraine: Make It Easy

Every blues fan knows you have listen to the “old” to find something “new”.…

"Music is the universal language anyway and if it makes people feel good and come together, how can anything be wrong with that?"

Danny Green: Sweet Home Memphis

Danny Green born in Memphis,…

"Everybody has their blues because blues is the energy of expression."

Agung Bagus Mantra: Bali Dwipa Jaya

Agung Bagus Mantra is a Balinese producer/musician/founder of Bali Blues Festival and owner of…

"I miss the innocent enthusiastic way that early rock and roll was played. The music nowadays is all hyped up and just business like Joe Bonamassa for instance."

Rod Demick: The Blues Therapy …

"My hope for the future is that the music will take first place over the technology again. These days, the technology seems to control and influence the music too."

Preston Ritter: The Beat Of Storyteller (R.I.P) You will be sorely missed…

"Change from War economy to Peace economy. Get rid of war, altogether."

Pat Moriarity: Creative Problem Solving

Pat Moriarity started out as a punk rock artist in the mid-1980′s music scene…