See, I have a different type of music from other peoples…

I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of love songs…

— David Edwards

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

— Herbie Mann

You don't have to play the blues to play rock 'n' roll, but that's where, somewhere along the line, your influences came from. I…

— Dusty Hill

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees set on the same night.

— Peter Tork

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New…

— Fats Domino

Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.

— David Gilmour

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick…

— Boz Scaggs

I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other…

— Jamie Cullum

I use all different kinds of techniques for all different types of music. The music dictates the style.

— John Patitucci

I have so many songs, it's ridiculous. I love so many different types of music and tend to write all over the map, style-wise.…

— Taryn Manning

When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they…

— Killer Mike

Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music.

— Girl Talk

I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of…

— Mike Posner

My mom did a good job exposing me to different types of music.

— Diana DeGarmo

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

— Nigel Kennedy