Tito Jackson Quotes

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.

I'm not committed to putting myself up for a blues guitarist, even though I love playing the blues.

I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the blues. You hear a rock n' roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues.

I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

The blues is life itself.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

I've never been a jam-band sort of musician.

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I like Chief Keef, so it's always super awkward. I just make music I like.

I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think my playing is getting better because of it - not necessarily better on a technical level, but certainly on a level of appropriateness.

Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.

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.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.