I love the blues, but I love a lot of music.
But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.
I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.
After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.
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.
I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.
The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.
I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.
When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues - I think the rest of us were.
On long car rides, we would always listen to the 'Blues Brothers' soundtrack and try to emulate everything that Aretha Franklin was doing. There was soul and grit in it that I think a kid from the suburbs really needed.
I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick sharkskin suit. Believe it or not, that's how I decided I wanted to get into music.
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.
But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.
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.
My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an album of Robert Johnson covers that, well, while not totally faithful for blues purists, is faithful for people like me that grew up with the '60s and the electric blues-rock versions of Johnson's songs.
I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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.
I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.
Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
As much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues.
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
I still like to play the blues more than anything else.
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.
It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.