Blues Quote by Mose Allison

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

— Mose Allison

I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things…

— Mose Allison

If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples…

— Robert Glasper

I grew up listening to a lot of classic jazz, and stuff like The Beatles, and old Motown stuff, and a lot of classical…

— Alison Sudol

I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away. And…

— Don McLean

I not only played and sang blues, but I also had to toss the piano around a bit to amuse the patrons.

— Hope Emerson

“By the way, Reb, about the singing. What gives? Walt Whitman sang the body electric. Billie Holiday sang the blues. You sang…everything. You could…

— Mitch Albom

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

— Little Richard

“David’s mouth dripped open slowly. He stood with his heels dug into my carpet, a dashed hope, a broken dream. No amount of money…

— Brandi L. Bates

Years and years ago, I sang at a blues bar with a band behind me. It was with my friend, my guitar teacher at…

— Josh Holloway

I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues.

— Georgia Holt

Back in the day in my teens I was listening to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery a lot; before that I was listening to…

— Larry Carlton

I like musicians who look at the public. You have to bring the music to the largest number. Otherwise, we'll [the Jazz players] stay…

— Dee Dee Bridgewater

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of…

— Rita Coolidge

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

— Dave Brubeck