Blues Quote by Butch Trucks Download Open image “We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.” — Butch Trucks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blues Jazz Listening Man Old Robert johnson
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
Back in the day in my teens I was listening to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery a lot; before that I was listening to… — Larry Carlton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry. — Johnny Ramone Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never liked blues and I really didn’t like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry. — Johnny Ramone Copy Share Image
I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
Is there one blues guy who was the most sophisticated and influential, like Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong in jazz? Was it Muddy Waters,… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got turned on to the blues. I realized how important it was to our music in England at the time. Everyone was into the blues. Then you start looking at the different kinds… — Ian Gillan Copy Share
I take my laptop with me on the road. When I come home, I log onto AOL, go to the Web site, and answer… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a place in any kind… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
When I listened to Elvin Jones, man, for the first time I heard a drummer that had all the technique plus emotion, passion, feel,… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
Johnny Winter doesn't know the word 'subtlety.' But it works, it works. — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
Once we started headlining at the Fillmore East, we were free to play all night, at least for the second set. 'Whipping Post' could… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
We would work up a tune that would make me learn a drum pattern I hadn't played before. In the early stages, the pattern… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
Country's cool if you like that kind of thing, but it doesn't have the complexity or - what's the word? - subtlety. — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it. — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
I love Las Vegas, but I never get a chance to play a club like the House of Blues. I guess we've graduated to… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
“Grits Glossary blues \’blüz\ n: nothing but a good man singing about hardship, sorrow, and the things he’s done wrong--but sake’s alive, they make… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything. — Orianthi Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long… — John Hunter Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it from Fleetwood… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image