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The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues. — Luther Allison

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels. — Ernest Gaines

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music. — Alvin Lee

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

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz. — Alexis Korner

For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level. — Scott Henderson

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing. — Buddy Guy

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. — Edgar Winter

I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz. — T-Bone Walker

The blues and jazz will live forever ... So will the Delta and the Big Easy. — Jack Nicholson

For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source — Duke Robillard

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin! — Miles Davis

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. — Christina Aguilera

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

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man. — Ray Charles

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age. — Bonnie Raitt

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley. — Bryan Ferry

What about a blues in W, in the key of W. — Rahsaan Roland Kirk

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music. — Edgar Winter

I am not the blues, I am jazz. I want to be present in the moment, not wallow in it. — Christopher Moore

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

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae. — Jerry Hall

In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues. — Scott Walker

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry. — Johnny Ramone

Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if it sounds good it does. — Wynton Marsalis

So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything. — B.J. The Chicago Kid

Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees. — Alex Clare

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family. — Alexis Korner

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz. — Robert Quine

On my John Coltrane. In a sentimental mood. — Brandi L. Bates

The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy. — Bix Beiderbecke

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. — Mose Allison

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread
without it, it's flat. — Carmen McRae

You play me with your jazz & leave me with the blues. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues. — Robert Cray

When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues — Ray Davies

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences. — Tim Cahill

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. — Adrian Mitchell

T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes under a pink moon — Saira Viola

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country. — Al Jourgensen