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I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
Johnny Ramone
I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.
Johnny Winter
When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.
Johnny Winter
I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.
Johnny Winter
I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.
Johnny Winter
There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.
Johnny Winter
The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.
Johnny Winter
I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.
Johnny Winter
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.
Jon Landau
My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.
Jonny Lang
I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.
Jonny Lang
I love Yamaha Clavinovas. I have them at home, in the studio and on tour with me. I find them ideal for all sorts of things: silent practice with headphones at home; writing; arranging and... just playing the blues!
Jools Holland
Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.
Jake Shimabukuro
I'm very lucky that people are able to say, 'Oh, that's that Moody Blues guy!' I'm very fortunate with that. That's all. Without the songs, I think, I'd just be a pretty average karaoke singer. In the end, it comes down to the songs: the strength of the songs.
Justin Hayward
I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.
Kesha
As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.
Kevin Nealon
Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
L.A. Reid
I picked up the guitar very late, in a very pagan way - I didn't know how to play, but I knew I had to. I drew and I had a diary, but it wasn't enough; I needed to express more. As soon as I learned two notes, I started to tell a story, which is why, I guess, my music resembles blues or folk.
Lou Doillon
But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.
Luther Allison
We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' with the chicken wire. This place called The Brick House, in Housatonic. I really can't believe we're going to play for people in New York City. I'm terrified, but it's a small enough room. But it's really just supposed to be for the fun of it.
Lauren Ambrose
I like blue a lot, and greens. Earthy blues and greens.
Lee DeWyze
White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
Ma Rainey
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