#blues

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#cats #classics #else #first #least

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#anyway #black #blues #element #everybody

Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music. ↗

— Peter Tork

#blues #bringing #credit #dedicated #deserves

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#classical #country #days #early #even

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players. ↗

— Stephen Stills

#blues #going #hear #i #players

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records. ↗

— Stephen Stills

#anybody #being #better #blues #group

One thing the blues ain't, is funny. ↗

— Stephen Stills

#funny #one thing #thing

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#basically #beatles #blues #inspired #rhythm

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#becoming #blues #ever #female #guitar

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#black #blues #changed #clubs #especially