Beach Quote by Ray Davies

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen…

— Ray Davies

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing…

— Ruth Brown

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song…

— Alan Lomax

From the first album, we've had songs like 'The Jack' that are blues based. We also did it in 'Ride On,' where we went…

— Angus Young

I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.

— Mike Lowry

Listen to really old blues guys and how they weren't allowed to sing about what they meant; they alluded to things. I find that…

— Dusty Hill

I've been writing everything from pop to country to blues - just a mixed bag of everything.

— Uncle Kracker

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to…

— Stephen Stills

I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.

— Eddie Vedder

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point…

— Brian Setzer

We wanted to write the kind of songs that can really cross any language barriers, any borders, and resonate with fans around the world.

— Zacky Vengeance

Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.

— Lemmy