The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention… — Ray Charles 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
“The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just any words, but, if you can, into rhythm and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things. — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' Roll is just New Orleans rhythm and blues under a new name. It's got that Dixieland beat and that's what… — Fats Domino Copy Share Image
You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all… — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald,… — Little Richard Copy Share Image
Working in bars back then, in the '50s, to get a job you had to play all kinds of music. There'd be… — J. J. Cale 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
I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against… — Ronnie Spector Copy Share Image
When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played… — Little Richard Copy Share Image
Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to… — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down… — Fats Domino Copy Share Image
We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music,… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues… — Wolfman Jack 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
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
“We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is… — Ann Lamott Copy Share Image
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
I'm a street player, and all of my influences come from bands that I was listening to at the time when I… — Joey Kramer Copy Share Image
“In a way, what Tarantino has done with the French New Wave and with David Lynch is what Pat Boone did with… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
All Of Me [Verse 1:] What would I do without your smart mouth? Drawing me in, and you kicking me out You've… — Corey JUSTICECR3W Whitmore Copy Share Image
I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences, and that is what I bring to the… — Joey Kramer Copy Share Image
It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
“I haven’t sold my soul yet – well, maybe a couple bars of rhythm and blues here and there.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues -… — Justin Hayward Copy Share Image
Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
It was so easy living day by day Out of touch with the rhythm and blues But now I need a little… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Finding out that Ray Charles sang country songs but it sounded as soulful as any rhythm and blues record that kind of… — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are… — Etta James Copy Share Image
“Now at that time in 1959 Pittsburgh was a popping place, it was called Little New York. Pittsburgh had live entertainment all… — Earl Johnson Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The white music was melodic and pretty, and you had beautiful women's voices like Gogi Grant and even the Andrews Sisters. Then… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image