Big Quote by Frankie Ballard

I've always been a fan of Buddy Guy as a guitarist, as well as Stevie Ray Vaughan and those blues guys. I'd say those…

— Chris Carmack

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical,…

— Haley Reinhart

My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

— Rod Stewart

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

— Horace Silver

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

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has…

— David Gilmour

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

— Horace Silver

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

— Jimmy Page

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is…

— Jonny Lang

I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

— Abigail Washburn

My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.

— Mitski

My dad brings a deep-seated knowledge of the British folk genre, and a lot of my love for guitar playing comes from learning from…

— Joel Plaskett