The California Blues

"Blues is a feeling. It's all in what happened in my life or to someone else's life, which is the true facts and a feeling. When you've been mistreated, you're not the onliest one. Someone else in the world has been mistreated-that's the blues. It's all in your feeling and the feeling is a true part of life."̶ Jimmy McCracklin, from The California Blues
"Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore."
̶ B.B. King

"If you don't know the blues, there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing a rock and roll or any other form of popular music."
̶ Keith Richards

"The Blues had a baby and they called it Rock and Roll."
̶ Muddy Waters

"The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life."
̶ Eric Clapton

"Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow."
̶ Nina Simone

"The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning."
̶ John Lee Hooker