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

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.

According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The first thing that came out of man is the blues because, according to the Scriptures, when God made man, man was lonesome and blue.

Mose Allison is a beautiful musician.