Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It… — Jesse Stone Copy Share Image
Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and… — David Chase Copy Share Image
The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
Isn't my music the last of the real rhythm and blues? Isn't it great? It's because of my musicians, we were weaned… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I was living and working with adult men who were playing a real art form. And I had been playing blues all… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
“The music had ceased. Alex walked over to the gramophone, wound it up again, and put on more blues, a woman singing… — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
The world always seems like it's going to hell when you're depressed. And, of course, it always is going to hell in… — Andrew Klavan Copy Share Image
If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
I want to speak in the tradition of rhythm and blues and soul music, but also push how it's dressed and how… — Kelela Copy Share Image
My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
It's no doubt that there's a connection (between the blues and hip-hop). Hip-hop is definitely a child of the blues. And I… — Common Copy Share Image
I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
In September 2012, I got the blues pretty bad, so I stopped playing for a little while. I started to renew my… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
The form of the blues helps us express our joys, our fears, our - anything you want to express. And it helps… — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steamed the label… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I wanted to play blues. But I wasn't blue enough. I wasn't like Muddy Waters, people who really had it hard. In… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette,… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I have a lot of analog. I think a lot of people do. There are a lot of people that are re-discovering… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like… — Vince Clarke Copy Share Image
I've always been really into blues guitar. I feel like that comes out a little bit in my guitar parts: country, blues… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
Life is relationships and what we're trying to do together. And please, that's what people have been singing about forever. That's what… — Frankie Ballard Copy Share Image
