Everyone tried to be a singer other than just a player. We had four voices in The Moody Blues.

I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

Everyone tried to be a singer other than just a player. We had four voices in The Moody Blues.

I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how I approached classical music. I'm sure of it.

My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.

I've been playing electric guitar since I was 11, and I love the blues.

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

I was singing the blues when I was six. Kind of sad, eh?

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.

My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.

You don't have to play the blues to play rock 'n' roll, but that's where, somewhere along the line, your influences came from. I mean, I don't care where you got it from. If you got it from Eric Clapton, he got it from the blues.

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.