Albums Quote by Jose James

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

— Robert Quine

Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I…

— Etta James

There's a lot of unreleased blues stuff I did with the Apollo Theater musicians, and there was of experimenting going on for me in…

— Dion DiMucci

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

— Common

I had just discovered jazz, and I started singing in a kind of blues cover band at the age of 15. We called ourselves…

— Hozier

It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized it immediately.…

— Eric Clapton

In a funny way, the illness spurred me on. I thought to myself, 'I've got to get through this operation to make a blues…

— Chris Rea

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

— Neil Young

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back…

— Ronnie Wood

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

— Alexis Korner

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

— John Goodman