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I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.

— Alex Chilton

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don't really have the blues, but I can appreciate the honesty and the simplicity of it.

— Gin Wigmore

My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.

— Alvin Lee

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.

— Stephen Stills

I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.

— Dimebag Darrell

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

— Stephen Stills

I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues.

— Georgia Holt

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

— Justin Timberlake

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

— Morgan Freeman

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

— Alexis Korner

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— Edgar Winter