Exotic Quote by Lin Brehmer

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

— Robert Quine

When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people…

— Tom Petty

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 discovered the blues from the English blues and then I wondered where all this stuff was coming from,” Mogg told Todd K. Smith…

— Neil Daniels

All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like…

— John Fogerty

The Rolling Stones were an inkling towards an appreciation of the unity of music, dance and words. Any of the black R&B people who…

— Allen Ginsberg

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

— Eric Clapton

I actually knew Sully's sister, and I was in a band called Stripmind, and then I became roommates with Sully and being out of…

— Robbie Merrill

James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because…

— Michael Jackson

It's true that when I was younger and I first got interested in music, I used to read books about the Stones and the…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation…

— Jack Kerouac

The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts…

— Paul McCartney