I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am. — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry. — Johnny Ramone Copy Share Image
I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
The whole of life itself expresses the blues. That's why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard. — Bruce Springsteen 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
As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit. — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really… — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwrit er. In my book that… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing. — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
“Who Am I? I’m a creator, a visionary, a poet. I approach the world with the eyes of an artist, the ears… — Sharon M. Draper Copy Share Image
This is something I think that blues music, or folk music, and all those particular genres that have a perspective about life… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
“No, I don't really think there's a "golden age" of anything. I think now is pretty fucking amazing. I'm probably the least… — J Spaceman Copy Share Image
It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
