Jimmy Page Quotes

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

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.

John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

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.

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.

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

I was just fascinated by the blues.

But my big thing was always the blues.

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

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

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

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

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.

There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.

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

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

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.

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.

When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested in, and listening to, mostly because it was becoming a vehicle for a generation of guitarists - like Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. Mike Bloomfield. And that's what I wanted to be, principally: a guitar player.