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The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music. -- Bill Medley
Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things. -- Ray Davies
My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it. -- James Taylor
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything -- Bonnie Raitt
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. -- Chuck Berry
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. -- Fats Domino
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. -- Little Richard
When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues - I think the rest of us were. -- Justin Hayward
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. -- Etta James
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. -- Billy Joel
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. -- Jackie DeShannon
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. -- Little Richard
You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church. -- Art Blakey
Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take. -- Maya Angelou
The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues. -- Mick Taylor
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. -- Adrian Mitchell
From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how I approached classical music. I'm sure of it. -- Kathleen Battle
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other. -- Tim Cahill
I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. -- Ronnie Spector
Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults. -- Sam Phillips
Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn't know anything about this because prejudice kept them from ever seeing what was going on. -- Jesse Stone
The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because it means that the melody is free to move between major and minor because you're not clashing with the third being depicted one way or the other. -- Robert Palmer
I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues with that oldies type feeling. I want to put it all together and create a Top 40 of rhythm and blues and country and straight blues with Wolfman at the reins. -- Wolfman Jack
I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything. -- Maya Angelou
I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music, which definitely influenced the way I sing. But singing gospel has made me a much more humble person. There are so many people who were geniuses who only a few people knew about when they were alive. -- Patty Griffin
It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of is it's music where a lot of different elements are played at the same time. The harmonic, the melodic... You're pushing the boundaries on every level. That could be true of rhythm and blues as well. I'm a musician. -- David Sanborn
Get rhythm when you get the blues. -- Johnny Cash
The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues -- Mick Taylor
I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues. -- Bill Nighy
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it. -- Ray Charles
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope. -- Rudolph Fisher
We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head. -- David Mutti Clark

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