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These Music quotes cite Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, and classical and Indian influences shaping a personal take on blues and jazz.
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My heroes were gospel blues players like Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, not whoever was number one.
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I've always been a fan of Buddy Guy as a guitarist, as well as Stevie Ray Vaughan and those blues guys. I'd say those are pretty big influences on me.
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From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.
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We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.
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Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.
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Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
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I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.
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There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.
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The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.
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The blues is life itself.
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I'm obsessed with Norah Jones and Amy Winehouse, Etta James. I'm really into blues and R&B type of stuff, '90s hip-hop; that's my jam.
Others describe the blues as what a sinner sounds like on the day of revival, and trace every blues musician's pain back to the Sadness and hardship of the Mississippi Delta's Nostalgia-laced history.