Boots Riley Quotes

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 may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take that out of it and put in a guitar or keyboard, it would be considered funk-rock music.

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

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

From the first album, we've had songs like 'The Jack' that are blues based. We also did it in 'Ride On,' where we went into the blues.

I have a sound. It's called 'funk mixed with stank.' That's what I do.

Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music.

I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences, and that is what I bring to the table with Aerosmith.

James Brown came from that hard, rough life that I came from. He took the blues and added rhythm to it. And he always had the most funkiest band; I liked the way he took his words and mixed it in with the band.

'Uptown Funk' has all the ingredients of the funk that I love.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.

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

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.

'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.

Blues and jazz are such a root to music.

My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

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

Blues, rock, and soul are part of the music I make, but there are Indian influences, too.

I was just fascinated by the blues.