I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It…

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

— Eddie Money

Ive always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

— Eddie Money

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

— Princess Nokia

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

— B. B. King

The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings.

— Paul Rodgers

On 'Underground,' we had used contemporary music to pull you into the present and not just look at it as a portrait on the…

— Misha Green

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

— Carla Bruni

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

— Elliott Carter

I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural or the…

— Michala Petri

The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of 'practice' events at, that the average human a thousand…

— Michael Merzenich

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there…

— Elliott Carter

I've realised that if it is to remain relevant, contemporary music needs to change.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

— Brian De Palma

I feel that contemporary music, with very few exceptions, is missing the voice. You see an award show, you see a hundred extras on…

— Clive Davis

Obviously there are pieces of classical music that are some of the most beautiful music ever written, for me anyway is a lot of…

— Bryce Dessner