Feelings Quote by John Fogerty

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics…

— Elvis Presley

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

— Eric Clapton

In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart.

— Marty Stuart

Throughout the '50s, tons of unknown locals came through Sun to record their demos. Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis all made…

— Shawn Amos

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 was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that music to…

— Steve Young

... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff…

— Brian Setzer

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note…

— Robbie Robertson

The first songs I learned were 'It Takes a Worried Man' and Woody Guthrie's 'Grand Coulee Dam,' 'Rock Island Line' - those kind of…

— Rory Gallagher

My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and…

— Madeleine Peyroux

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were…

— Muddy Waters

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

— L'Wren Scott