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I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. Big time blues and music city. It's always been in my bloodline.

You ask any Olympian what the year after the Olympics is like - you always get the Olympic blues.

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

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

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

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

I'm not committed to putting myself up for a blues guitarist, even though I love playing the blues.

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

I grew up listening to Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, guys with blues backgrounds.

'Basmati Blues' deals with a great social issue, GMOs, but it's told through love and song and dance.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Should the Moody Blues be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? That's absurd. Of course they should be.

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

The blues needs to be everything to you, otherwise it's not going to come across. That's what I think.

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

I was doing something of my own after I left The Moody Blues, I went away, lived in Spain for a while.

I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

I'd do the blues all the time if I could, that's what I'm into. But people just don't like to hear it.

I'm not interested in re-creating the same blues I love so much. I'm interested in pushing boundaries.

Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.

The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

Actually, I didn't listen to country music very much in Oklahoma. I listened to blues and rock n' roll.

I love the blues. I love rock. I love classic rock. I love country. All types of music I can appreciate.

I'm sort of East Coast, so I like the off-white and the navy blues and the low-key preppy kind of thing.

I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

Actually, my mother turned me on to the blues. We had Lightnin' Hopkins as well as Elvis Presley records.

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

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