Blues Quote by Benjamin Booker

I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

— Benjamin Booker

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

— Gary Oldman

Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different…

— Jack White

My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records.

— Jimmy Page

As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.

— Ric Ocasek

When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written…

— Frank Iero

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

— Nina Simone

I always had influences musically with punk, and then growing up, I dyed my hair every color. I did the dip-dye blue, before anybody…

— Leigh Lezark

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.

— Horace Silver

Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot…

— Page Hamilton

There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n' roll. When…

— El-P

My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and…

— Yael Naim