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These Music quotes cite Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, and classical and Indian influences shaping a personal take on blues and jazz.
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician.
I am very excited to be here in Wales and look forward to putting on the Cardiff Blues shirt.
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When I'd hear something that sounded like I could follow it - most of those big band jazz tunes are blues anyway - I would hum it and play with the fiddle while I was humming.
Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and 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.
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.
Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am.
Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.
I want to do a romantic comedy that nobody thought I could do. And then do a comedy with Dan Aykroyd that is totally different from 'The Blues Brothers.' I'm a comic actor, but I'm an actor, too.
I grew up listening to Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, guys with blues backgrounds.
I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences, and that is what I bring to the table with Aerosmith.
