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My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

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

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

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.

I grew up listening to Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, guys with blues backgrounds.

Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.