Determined Quote by Billy Corgan

After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles and Ella…

— Ian Gillan

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues…

— Alex Chilton

I was just fascinated by the blues.

— Rory Gallagher

I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me.

— Jason Momoa

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

— Morgan Freeman

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

Really, it was after I got out of college that I began to get into the blues. I started going to blues jams at…

— Susan Tedeschi

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

— Stephen Stills

Because we grew up in Australia, to find information about a lot of blues guys, I used to go to the library and find…

— Angus Young

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

— Butch Trucks

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that they adopt…

— August Wilson

I developed a passion for American blues music, and I'd buy albums from a record shop in Soho, which I played on my Dansette…

— David Essex