I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that… — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much… — Johnny Winter Copy Share Image
The blues will be blue, and the jealousies green, but when love picks its color it demands to be seen. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
Rhythm and blues is about what life is, it's about being able to talk heartbreak and understanding that people go through it,… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
My roots are in everything from doo-wop and blues to the Four Freshman and the Beach Boys and jazz and electronica. But… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
“The guitar breathed. It inhaled and exhaled, and music filled the shop as the instrument picked the heartbreak of generations.” — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
Soul and blues were a definite influence on me. It was raw and naked emotion which you didn't get much where I… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
My dad was very influential with the music he exposed me to. He was really into blues and folk, so he'd play… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this marriage of… — George Ezra Copy Share Image
You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music… — Scotty Moore Copy Share Image
Are you really into pop? Are you really into old country? Blues? If you're not honest about your influences, then things don't… — Frankie Ballard Copy Share Image
I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly. — Brad Renfro Copy Share Image
To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots… — Geezer Butler Copy Share Image
Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'... Linda's the muse. — Donovan Copy Share Image
Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs. — Earl King Copy Share Image
The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
Years and years ago, I sang at a blues bar with a band behind me. It was with my friend, my guitar… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
A lot of my friends, they think I grew up to rock and roll, but I didn't. I grew up to Hank… — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me. — B. J. Thomas Copy Share Image
On piano, I tend to write either gospel or singer-songwriter songs, sometimes kind of rocking blues songs. But the more heavier rock… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
Actually, I didn't listen to country music very much in Oklahoma. I listened to blues and rock n' roll. — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is… — David Carson Copy Share Image
I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta. — Tony Todd Copy Share Image
I am more of a rock guy than I am a blues guy. People get the idea that I am a dyed… — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
I kind of got really, really into 'Hill Street Blues' when it came out. I used to leave a class early just… — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
I'm trained in classical music, and my favourites have always been rock n' roll and blues, but I've grown up with different… — Shruti Haasan Copy Share Image
As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult… — Boz Scaggs Copy Share Image
People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially blue. Me and… — Elle Fanning Copy Share Image
All of my solos are blues based. Even though a lot of my songs get into pop, I wind up going back… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
My heroes were gospel blues players like Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, not whoever was number one. — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
