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

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.
Tony Iommi

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.
Jay McShann

My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music.
Steve Cropper

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Mark Knopfler

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 period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
Walter Becker

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.
Kid Rock

Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
Otis Rush

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
Count Basie

Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'
Buddy Guy

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
Al Jarreau

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.
John Mayall

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
Carla Bley

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.
Stephen Stills

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

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.
Polly Berrien Berends

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.
Brian Setzer

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
Peter Tork

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.
Muddy Waters

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
Jimi Hendrix