Jimmy Page Quotes

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.

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

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.

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 haven't lost my blues roots.

I have been influenced by music. I grew up listening to blues, jazz and all.

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. Big time blues and music city. It's always been in my bloodline.

The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American.

My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old.

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.

The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

I was born out of classical music.

The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. It's not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.

I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.