I grew up listening to blues and rock n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite… — Ato Essandoh Copy Share Image
The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn… — Ronnie Wood Copy Share Image
Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don't really… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
I liked the 12-bar blues because everybody could play it, but they could also play it their own way, and they could… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
Paul and I were friends, the Moody Blues toured with the Beatles on the second British tour. That developed into me working… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music. — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in… — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
I'm just glad that I'm the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers can keep singing and having an audience… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' with the chicken wire.… — Lauren Ambrose Copy Share Image
Blues purists never cared for me. I don't worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made 'Three O'… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Lonnie Donegan and the folk movement were responsible for a lot of the spread of the blues in England. The group Them… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
A long time ago, you couldn't say what you mean in blues. You had to disguise it, and that's where the double… — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call… — Carl Paladino Copy Share Image
“Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Everybody started callin' my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playin' down… — Fats Domino Copy Share Image
I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I… — Koko Taylor Copy Share Image
If 'Nevada' was an original for a certain scene of trans writing, 'Stone Butch Blues' is an original in literature, no qualifications. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy… — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.' — Tamara Taylor Copy Share Image
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
I was doing something of my own after I left The Moody Blues, I went away, lived in Spain for a while. — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight… — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
It's been a while since I watched the tube cause like a crip said: I got way too many blues for any… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I listen to all kinds of music myself; it can range from practically anything: Opera, Jazz, to Blues, good Pop, just about… — Colm Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by… — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country. — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
