Blick Bassy Quotes

Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

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.

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

Blues was made for the recessed.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

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

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.

I haven't lost my blues roots.

Actually, my mother turned me on to the blues. We had Lightnin' Hopkins as well as Elvis Presley records.

I loved Jimmy Reed, the chord changes, the lyrics.

I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.

I grew up listening to Patsy Cline. I was a huge Patsy Cline fan. I still am. Even though she's considered country, I think of her more as a blues singer. She's got a great blues voice, and she has such an amazing story, which I always loved.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

I've always had a great love for the blues.

The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals.

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.