Blues Quote by Peter Frampton

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that…

— Edgar Winter

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time…

— Walter Becker

I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

— Amiri Baraka

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

— Bob Iger

I never liked blues and I really didn’t like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

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

— Robert Quine

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

— Damien Chazelle

I've always loved jazz.

— Rita Coolidge

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've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer!

— Jane Monheit

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

— Baz Luhrmann