Jazz Quote by Alexis Korner

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

— Dickey Betts

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

— Robert Quine

I was living and working with adult men who were playing a real art form. And I had been playing blues all my life.…

— Steve Miller

We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.

— Butch Trucks

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.

— Robert Cray

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

— Jonny Lang

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time…

— Walter Becker

I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

I play blues, sure, but don't call me a bluesman

— Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

— Stephen Stills

I never liked blues and I really didn’t like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened…

— Eric Clapton