Blues Quote by Marty Stuart

I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there…

— Mose Allison

Nothing but blues and Elvis.

— Steely Dan

Rock 'n' Roll is just New Orleans rhythm and blues under a new name. It's got that Dixieland beat and that's what sells records.

— Fats Domino

Early on, before rock 'n' roll, I listened to big band music - anything that came over the radio - and music played by…

— Bob Dylan

Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.'

— Sturgill Simpson

Everybody started callin' my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playin' down in New…

— Fats Domino

I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it.

— Earl Scruggs

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Marty Stuart

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New…

— Fats Domino

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

— Link Wray

There was not a lot of rock n roll in the house. Our parents didnt think it was very groovy, and I tend to…

— Elvis Costello