Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties,… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Eric Clapton was such a great player. He sounds like he's Freddie King or someone like that. He plays the roots of… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“The blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I listen to, like, funky Chicago blues. I love blues, but I love the funky, happy blues. There's a song about pretty… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
When I think about Oz, when he was a teenager, I'm just reminded of what an excellent blues voice he had. He… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
The first songs I learned were 'It Takes a Worried Man' and Woody Guthrie's 'Grand Coulee Dam,' 'Rock Island Line' - those… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues… — Wolfman Jack Copy Share Image
Mick Jagger has been an idol of mine since I was 10 years old. Through his music, he has taught me so… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“I discovered the blues from the English blues and then I wondered where all this stuff was coming from,” Mogg told Todd… — Neil Daniels Copy Share Image
When you look at so much of what we all love, there's either soul-based to it, or it's the blues. It's really… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
The blues, the way it's interpreted, is always a product of your environment, and so it's almost like food. You know, it's… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music,… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
“beautiful blues in fine tunes; tunes of bass and brass brass knuckles clad in sweat and tears true to a son of… — Nii Yeboah Norton Nortey Copy Share Image
It's marvelous when you visit Tokyo: they have these clubs, and they'll have 'Motown Night' or 'The Beatles - Totally Authentic and… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Every girl is a singer. I wanted to learn the solos and play lead guitar. I would meticulously teach myself solos so… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
You know, I really feel a responsibility to the music, and I teach workshops in music sometimes. And folks do come to… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
“Her voice had a thin thread of sadness running through it that made the song important, that made it tell a story… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
I think education was the key for me, and that's what I tell kids. That base in the classics gave me something… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
There's a lot of women in blues music, lots of strong women and that sort of stuff. It's not the first thing… — Mirel Wagner Copy Share Image
I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of… — Alex Chilton Copy Share Image
“Blues all ’bout that blessed belief if’in you put everything you got—your heart, your soul, your flesh, your bone—if you give everything,… — Eyre Price Copy Share Image
The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Lightnin' Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close… — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
“They say that you need to ride the rails for a while to understand the traveling blues. They're wrong. To understand the… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“You know those days when you get the mean reds?" "Same as the blues?" "No," she said slowly. "No, the blues are… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the… — Hozier Copy Share Image
When Chuck Berry came along, what he did was more rock & roll than it was blues. It was more exciting. He… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in… — Donovan Copy Share Image
From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blowI been in some big towns an' heard me… — Johnny Mercer Copy Share Image
Justin Hayward was a teenager when he was drafted into the Moody Blues in 1966. He brought with him one song he… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
I would hear Steely Dan on the radio all the time, and I listened to 'Aja' a lot. I mean, 'Black Cow'… — John 5 Copy Share Image
I'd go over to friends' houses and ask them to put on some Howlin' Wolf, and they wouldn't know what I was… — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
Really, it was after I got out of college that I began to get into the blues. I started going to blues… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
“The blues are intent and watchful. “You’re trying to get me to change my mind, aren't you?” “Lilah, I constantly hope that… — Anna Bloom Copy Share Image
