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Blues Quotes

I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

Growing Up Think Plant Blues Growing

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

Blues Jazz Swing Up Where Far

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

Music I Am Blues Understand Ignorant

The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together.

Together You Back Blues Fold About

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

Myself Man Me Guitar You Blues

I was always a closet blues player.

Blues Always Closet Player

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

Music Heaven Place Blues Where Idea

In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.

Long Blues Us Get Just Takes

From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone before - whether it was approaching the blues or folk music like 'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You': nothing existed like that.

Music You Blues New Nothing First

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

Music You Blues Know Been Generous

That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.

Guitar Blues Matter Something Note

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

Change Music Blues Go Want Rock

If it wasn't for guys like Gary Moore, I wouldn't exist. He not only proved that the blues could rock but it could draw a crowd as well. All of which made a huge impression on me.

Me Blues Rock Impression Crowd Well

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

God Control Hands You Blues Sitting

Susie Waggoner in 'Miami Blues' is just such a sweetheart, such an innocent. When I watch that, I really feel like I'm watching Susie Waggoner. I don't really see myself. And there's a simplicity to it that I really like.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Myself Simplicity Feel Miami Blues

I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to growing up was John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. It's music that feels like home to me.

Home Music Me Baby Growing Up Blues

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

John Lee Hooker

You Back Blues Stop Go Europe

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

Singing Country Blues Los Angeles

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

Music American Dark Blues Chicago

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

I Am Blues Will Always Guitarist Am

It was a great thing for the Blues boys to do in terms of shaving their hair off for me. The whole squad did it. At first I thought it was only going to be a handful of boys, but fair play, they all did it, and a few of the coaches as well.

Great Me Hair Thought Blues Play

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

Music America White Country Blues

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands.

Music Blues Go Want Jazz Rock

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.

Love Music I Am Influence Blues

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