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I've been playing electric guitar since I was 11, and I love the blues.
God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?
I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.
They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.
Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.
When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.
I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed.
Blues purists may hate what I do sometimes because it's a little dirtier.
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.
The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.
I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.
Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.
A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
I have been influenced by music. I grew up listening to blues, jazz and all.
My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.
The blues singers were talking about everyday life, and they pushed a button.
Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.
Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.
When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.
If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.
Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.
But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
Country music, like rock or blues, can move over into a lot of different areas.
My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.
Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.
Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.
See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
It's so satisfying as a guitar player to play stuff that's related to the blues.
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.
I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.
All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.
I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.
Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.
As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.
When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.
I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.
I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.