Bland Quote by Johnny Winter

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

— Jimmy Page

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to…

— Stephen Stills

I used to be a great blues singer.

— Roger Daltrey

Everyone tried to be a singer other than just a player. We had four voices in The Moody Blues.

— Denny Laine

The thing is, I was more blues-oriented, more of a purist than in the pop world. That led me into a folk rock trio…

— Denny Laine

There are many influences in my music, not only blues. R&B, Motown, gospel, old timey, jazz, even classical are all part of what I…

— Rory Block

In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting,…

— David Johansen

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

My parents had this massive record player in the living room, a 'blue spot grand' they called it... it used up an entire rainforest…

— Lenny Henry

The first time I ever heard the blues, my parents had a stack of records that they weren't using anymore. I found them when…

— Ato Essandoh

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

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked…

— B. B. King