Bland Quote by Edgar Winter

I had always been a jazz fan - Django Reinhardt, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, the early George Benson. And I come from…

— Peter Frampton

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

— Johnny Ramone

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

— Johnny Ramone

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

— Amiri Baraka

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

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

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

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

— Robert Quine

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

My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee…

— Alvin Lee

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

— Morgan Freeman

Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if it sounds…

— Wynton Marsalis