Dusty Hill Quotes

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in Little Richard and Chuck Berry.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.

I love blues, mellow rock 'n' roll.

From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how I approached classical music. I'm sure of it.

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two.

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

Soul and blues were a definite influence on me. It was raw and naked emotion which you didn't get much where I come from.

You don't have to play the blues to play rock 'n' roll, but that's where, somewhere along the line, your influences came from. I mean, I don't care where you got it from. If you got it from Eric Clapton, he got it from the blues.

You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music.

If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.

For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz and you mix it together, and that's my basic makeup.

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues. What we're trying to do is play rock 'n' roll, but other people call it different things.

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

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.

You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.