David Edwards Quotes

Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in Little Richard and Chuck Berry.

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'

You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music.

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how I approached classical music. I'm sure of it.

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music.

The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

I was just fascinated by the blues.

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.

After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got turned on to the blues. I realized how important it was to our music in England at the time. Everyone was into the blues. Then you start looking at the different kinds of blues, and you follow the journey backwards from Chicago to earlier times back down to the Delta to the Memphis Blues.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits