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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.
The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in...
I'm very fortunate that I really like acting, but it's not all I want to do. I love to sing. I love blues. I love jazz.
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
Actually, my mother turned me on to the blues. We had Lightnin' Hopkins as well as Elvis Presley records.
Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry.
Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'... Linda's the muse.
I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in 1966, but in 1963 and 1964, I was absorbing enormous amounts of music, from baroque to jazz to...
There's a lot of unreleased blues stuff I did with the Apollo Theater musicians, and there was of experimenting going on for me in the mid-'60s in that studio, which I think frustrated Columbia.
