Rhythm And Blues Quotes

Rhythm And Blues Quote of the day

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

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

My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

It was so easy living day by day Out of touch with the rhythm and blues But now I need a little give and take The New York Times, The Daily News.

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.

I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.

Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues.