When you think blues, you think BB King. Even a young kid can look at a picture of BB King and say, 'the blues.' The man is more than a musician. He's a monument.
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.
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
To this day, there's nobody, nobody that sounds like Janice Joplin.
I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva.
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober.
I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.
But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
Hardly a day goes by without me sticking on a Muddy Waters record.
When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Smith blues LPs. That's when I started to sing.
If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
Pop Staples was one of my true mentors.
Amy Winehouse is one of my biggest inspirations.
I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show where Carol Houston, an actress on 'Matlock' sang 'It Is Well With My Soul' accompanied by a choir. Boy, that was powerful.
Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.
Now and again there will be the occasional joke about owing someone two dollars from the days in '63 when I was a broke blues singer with a washboard, but it's good. I'm happy.
Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues
Mose Allison is a beautiful musician.
Skip James, for me, is the meaning of the blues.
I really like Billie Holiday's husky voice, and I'd definitely like to find out more about her.
I used to be a great blues singer.
