Blues Quote by Steve Miller

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

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened…

— Eric Clapton

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've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

— Eddie Money

Ive always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

— Eddie Money

After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles and Ella…

— Ian Gillan

I had always been a jazz fan - Django Reinhardt, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, the early George Benson. And I come from…

— Peter Frampton

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of…

— Alexis Korner

My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee…

— Alvin Lee

We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.

— Butch Trucks

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

— Mose Allison

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in…

— Cab Calloway