"I'm afraid people call the blues only the musical aspect, forgetting all the other aspects of the culture of blues, bringing an increase in a the spectacularization or even a folklorization (in a pejorative sense) of the blues."

Filipe Gaeta: The Blues Goes…

"Blues and Soul will always have a good following because that music has always come from the heart. Both genres are inspired from pain and hardship which is something that everyone can relate to."

Matthew Szlachetka: All About The Song…

"I worry about the future, the Children just are listening poor music all the time here without any culture and any contents are the same songs that are educating our future. It´s really sad."

David Tanganelli: When The Man Loves The Blues…

"The Blues has given me a way to not only express my creativity, but also an outlet in which I can put all of my emotion to serve the music to its fullest."

Bad Brad: Walkin' With The Blues…

"The Blues come in all shapes and sizes, you know, you can have the blues when your woman leaves you and you can have them blues when your women won't leave you alone."

King B. King: All Music Is Blues Music!…

"I think because there is a strong connection with emotional things and there is a lot of people that just love that beat and they don’t have idea why, probably is because it’s related with the heart beat in a natural way."

Gonzalo Araya: Heart…

"I really believe that it’s healthier for any musical form to keep going forward, the past is the past and we live right now in the present."

Otavio Rocha: Carioca Grooves The Blues…

"The Blues is simple; true and deals with real emotions like love, pain, loosing your house; losing your job things that people have to face everyday."

Pascal Delmas: Monsieur Blues Explosion…

"Jazz and Blues music speaks to the soul. These genres have a honesty in approach that honors real life, real people, real emotion."

Julie Black: Follow The Muse & Angel

Based in Florida,…

"Music and art can confront and free us from the mind and spirit prison because they  get us out of the cerebral chatter of the frontal lobes and allow our feelings to change instantaneously."

Dennis Formento: Free Mind & Spirit …

"The Blues is not just a music style but a way of living."

Jefferson Gançalves: Under The Baobab 

Jefferson Gançalves, native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, began his musical career in the 1990's…

John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014)

Rest in Paradise…

"Southern rock was the inevitable spawn of blues. If blues was born out of the hardships of the sharecropper, then southern rock was born out of the poor white folk who lived right beside them."

The Raisin Cain' Band: Keep on Rockin'…

"I can’t imagine living without blues (and Jazz…real jazz is blues based too) in my head, and listening to recorded or live music. And for me it was a soundtrack to my political activities."

Rick Congress: Give Blues & Jazz A Chance…

"I might also add that the Blues is about improvising, and it is that basic fact that it allows for solutions to manifest, even if it is on a subliminal level."

Steven Von Linne: The Blues Ulysses…

"You have to remember that the blues was created as a personal musical expression by a basically non-literate culture. It is the sound of the human heart, the song of the spirit. I think that today we need the blues more than ever."

Gary Erwin: Lowcountry…

"I believe the Blues relates to Poetry in a way that acknowledges structure: that is blues changes are inherent in 1-4-5 chord progressions and the lyric lines are in three structured phrases." 

Michael C Ford: Beatbop Words & Rhymes…

"I believe the blues message is: Simplicity."

Cristiano Crochemore: Freeman Blues

Cristiano Crochemore, is a Brazilian guitarist from Porto Alegre, lives in Rio De Janeiro since 1986. In…

"The Blues teaches us that everybody is somebody. The blues is the soundtrack of reality. Whatever you have lived through has been talked about in a blues song."

Pat Moss: The Score Music Of Lifes…

"The blues is the roots of all modern pop music and always be, you always end up with the blues no matter what…"

Leo Javali: Belo Horizonte De Blues

Leo Javali born Leonardo Augusto…