My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman… — Charlie Wilson Copy Share Image
The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of Chicago blues, I suppose. It reminds me of growing up, I guess. But I'm also obsessed… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
The blues is like this. You lay down some night and you turn from one side of the bed to the other:… — Huddie William Ledbetter Copy Share Image
Music and the blues, they have taught me a lot. I think in this book, 'Book Of Hours,' there is this blues… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
What really brought out the voice that I have, my soul voice and true voice, was really not getting any work and… — Morgan James Copy Share Image
If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
In terms of exploring an identity in the country music world, what I realized very quickly was that there are people who… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
Whenever I sing blues from the '50s or the kind of blues that you might have heard Eric Clapton or Duane Allman… — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
I knew Paul when he was in the Beatles. We did the second Beatles British tour with the Moody Blues. And we… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
It's true that when I was younger and I first got interested in music, I used to read books about the Stones… — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
Because we grew up in Australia, to find information about a lot of blues guys, I used to go to the library… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
Someone told me once that blues is like whiskey. They keep whiskey in the barrel for so many years, and then they… — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
New Orleans is just so full of culture in the music content - blues, folk. I was introduced to a lot of… — Luke James Copy Share Image
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
“You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the saddest kind… — Ken Grimwood Copy Share Image
There wasn't really a lot of difference from a Mississippi perspective between what Elvis did on 'Mystery Train' or 'Milkcow Blues' or… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew… — Jack White Copy Share Image
When I first started playing, I plunked away just like everyone else. During the Sixties I played in a blues band for… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
In the same way I wanted to learn how to play poker, I've always kind of been into the blues. It just… — Ryan Fleck Copy Share Image
With Free, we had phased out all of the blues material and wanted to phase in all original material, and the only… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
As an ardent follower of the Blues it wasn't the done thing to own up to liking The Beatles but secretly I… — David Essex Copy Share Image
“There’s something lyrical about an eternal truth. It’s a graceful riff. A free-flowing melody. Light and airy, it floats all around you.… — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown,… — Phil Collen Copy Share Image
From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone before - whether… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I met Paul Kossoff for the first time when I was playing in the back of a pub room in Finsbury Park… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
“You hear lots of notes, don’t you? Some have a major sound. Some have a minor sound. But there’s not one blue… — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
I loved the Rolling Stones. I heard a little bit of country music creeping around the edges of some of their songs.… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. There may be no working director more accomplished at… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
I listened to all those blues records. They were great - Clapton, John Mayall. Then eventually I heard Genesis with Peter Gabriel,… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make… — Alan Price Copy Share Image
What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first time I'd done… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
