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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 picked up my guitar, I spent the first day learning the chord E, the second day A, then B7, and all of a sudden, I could play the blues.
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My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.
I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.
You know Bakersfield was full of workers from the south, from Texas and Arkansas, and they brought their gospel and blues with them. And that's the sound I grew with.
One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is.
I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues.
Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.
To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.
And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.
