The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU I said, 'You're from Chicago, home of the blues. Here's a nice blues record from a local band,'
DAN AYKROYD Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, a...
HUGH LAURIE My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin...
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GREGG ALLMAN At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that w...
GREGG ALLMAN I think I heard the name Muddy Waters first, then John Lee Hooker.
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TODD RUNDGREN When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been...
KURT COBAIN I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing w...
MICK TAYLOR But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.
CAROLE KING I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I...
KIESZA I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-yea...
ERIC CARR I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a...
BUDDY RICH John Mayer will be around forever, like the Eagles and Eric Clapton.
BRETT YOUNG My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me i...
TONY IOMMI I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominat...
CHRIS STAPLETON Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.
NEIL INNES I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.
MALIN AKERMAN Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates: my pure image of a band.
JOSH KLINGHOFFER So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an A...
MICHAEL STIPE I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that...
CHAD SMITH It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, w...
ALVIN LEE It was a natural progression with the band,
BILLY IDOL I hate to do it, especially with all the festivities. The governor is going to be here, the band is ...
DONALD LIPSKI When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, ...
TROMBONE SHORTY I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
DAVE BRUBECK I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking fo...
JAMILA WOODS You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on...
WARREN ZEVON I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was k...
J. TILLMAN Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was ...
RON CURRIE JR. You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk B...
COLIN MOCHRIE It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed th...
TIM CAHILL I watched him around guys like George Harrison and Eric Clapton, and I realized the look in their ey...
STAN PERKINS I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric ...
JACK BRUCE As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world....
GREG LAKE It was a matter of being in the right place at the right time with the right stuff. There was this g...
ELVIN BISHOP I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work...
CAROLE KING It was a simple service, with words from Stuart's uncle on behalf of the family and from me, on beha...
IAN GRANT I decided early on that I wanted to be Michael Bloomfield, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton - not George H...
TODD RUNDGREN Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll...
LEE ATWATER When I left the band, what the band did is really their own business. And their career-they got on w...
BRUCE DICKINSON The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is proba...
ACE FREHLEY I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I played the sax at school. I was in marching band.
DESIIGNER My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played...
JENNIFER GARNER When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.
AGNETHA FALTSKOG I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of E...
JACK BRUCE The Republicans are yet again attempting to muddy the waters to divert attention from their pattern ...
JENNIFER CRIDER The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.
TERRY PRATCHETT We're not surprised that he would try to muddy the waters.
ROBERT SCHWARTZ My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around ...
R. KELLY All the muddy waters of my life cleared up when I gave myself to Christ.
MICKEY ROONEY Well, it's a very mundane answer I'm afraid, nothing to do with Eric Clapton or born again religions...
JACK BRUCE Geffen was never supportive of the band.
EDIE BRICKELL Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be...
ROBERT CRAY I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philh...
MELVYN BRAGG There's a difference between 'i like that band' and 'i support that band'.
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LIV BRUCE I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
IAN ANDERSON JON: I played a little trumpet in high school, you know, in a marching band. I had one of those thin...
JON & RICHIE (BON JOVI) To tell the truth, I'd join a band with John Lennon any day, but I couldn't join a band with...
GEORGE HARRISON When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who ...
WAYNE KRAMER I really started hearing a sound for the band for the first time instead of just hearing a sound for...
JASON MOLINA When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans a...
ILLINOIS JACQUET I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then...
OTIS RUSH The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
DORIS DAY I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ...
DARYL HALL A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playin...
KIM GORDON The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a ...
CARLENE CARTER After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was togethe...
SUZI QUATRO I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing t...
CHICK COREA I'm probably the only guy in the world who's played with Lightning Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Hendrix, D...
ELVIN BISHOP I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no on...
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BRUCE CARLSON I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a ...
IAN ANDERSON I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
IAN ANDERSON I've gotten back with the band so I could get some rest!
BELA FLECK It was 1999 at a Halloween show in New Orleans when I first got the bug for Giant People. I was on s...
CARLOS WASHINGTON I worked at first in a music store, and soon enough found myself hanging out with people like Patti ...
PHIL HARTMAN It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a...
BARRY GIBB I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band.
RICK MORANIS Many students felt violated by what happened. But the students responded positively as a band unit i...
SIDNEY LANIER Inside Out was the first band I ever fronted. I channeled all my pain through that band. It was abou...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jaz...
CLINT EASTWOOD I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.
J. D. SOUTHER I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.
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ALAN JAMES I don't want to go and see a band that has no original members. Or if the drummer was the original m...
BRUCE HOWARD I don't want to go and see a band that has no original members, ... Or if the drummer was the origin...
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JACK BRUCE Feinstein is dipping her toe into the very ugly, muddy waters of religious bigotry,
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ERIC CLAPTON It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at eac...
ERIC CLAPTON I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
ERIC CLAPTON I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to m...
ERIC CLAPTON I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It h...
ERIC CLAPTON Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. N...
ERIC CLAPTON My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, fo...
ERIC CLAPTON I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.
ERIC CLAPTON I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just ...
ERIC CLAPTON I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Cha...
ERIC CLAPTON I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survive...
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ERIC CLAPTON I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and ...
ERIC CLAPTON One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
ERIC CLAPTON Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or al...
ERIC CLAPTON I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some peopl...
ERIC CLAPTON I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are...
ERIC CLAPTON It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at eac...
ERIC CLAPTON I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right co...
ERIC CLAPTON I feel wonderful because I see / The love light in your eyes. / And the wonder of it all / Is that y...
ERIC CLAPTON I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose beca...
ERIC CLAPTON Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I wa...
ERIC CLAPTON I felt it was time to be a little charitable, in terms of friendships and healing up old wounds,
ERIC CLAPTON They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around ...
ERIC CLAPTON From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could t...
ERIC CLAPTON Riding With The King.
ERIC CLAPTON La tournée terminée, Tom et Roger pensèrent qu'après le succès de I Shot The Sheriff, ce serait...
ERIC CLAPTON At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat ...
ERIC CLAPTON Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.
ERIC CLAPTON For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous ...
ERIC CLAPTON Music became a healer for me.
ERIC CLAPTON Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe ...
ERIC CLAPTON I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I c...
ERIC CLAPTON Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the nec...
ERIC CLAPTON For me, it's about the music. I'm just the messenger, and I hope to do it as long as I live.
ERIC CLAPTON I just think I'm OK, ... The object of most of my work has been to raise it above my standard. And s...
ERIC CLAPTON What gives him the right to do that? ... I ask myself if musicians should conduct themselves like po...
ERIC CLAPTON Nathan is probably the closest friend I have in the music world. He's the most supportive and caring...
ERIC CLAPTON Obviously, I am not going to say which one it is, but it is a guitar that has been around my house f...
ERIC CLAPTON I think I probably am more influenced by the overall groove of the track, not even the song. If we p...
ERIC CLAPTON It's not a pretence. I will have to work to support the way we live.
ERIC CLAPTON It's been so long since I've been around something from somebody else that's inspired me. For the la...
ERIC CLAPTON I like her music. I think it's good. And well, I think she's pretty ... even though she's older than...
ERIC CLAPTON I wanted to make a studio album without quite knowing what it was going to be,
ERIC CLAPTON it's been up to me to inspire me.
ERIC CLAPTON Let's make the best of the situation / Before I finally go insane. / Please don't say we'll never fi...
ERIC CLAPTON You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you'v...
ERIC CLAPTON It's very hard, so I try and make it as engaging as it can be. But you have to face the fact that, n...
ERIC CLAPTON Mine's as good as his! Love, Pete.
ERIC CLAPTON The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of...
ERIC CLAPTON It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to expres...
ERIC CLAPTON I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just v...
ERIC CLAPTON I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some peopl...
ERIC CLAPTON I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadn...
ERIC CLAPTON It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously...
ERIC CLAPTON But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up an...
ERIC CLAPTON Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to str...
ERIC CLAPTON I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
ERIC CLAPTON It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be intro...
ERIC CLAPTON It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it com...
ERIC CLAPTON I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.
ERIC CLAPTON In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express m...
ERIC CLAPTON When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the trad...
ERIC CLAPTON An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
ERIC CLAPTON I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening...
ERIC CLAPTON Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
ERIC CLAPTON My dedication to my music has driven everyone away. I've had girlfriends, but I always end up on...
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ERIC HOFFER Mass is resistance to motion.
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ERIC PARSLOW The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
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ERIC PARSLOW Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.
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ERIC HOFFER The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
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ERIC HOFFER Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for se...
ERIC HOFFER Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
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ERIC HOFFER The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ac...
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ERIC SPITZNAGEL The chief cause of problems is solutions.
ERIC SEVAREID When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common...
ERIC HOFFER Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring...
ERIC HOFFER Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can...
ERIC HOFFER Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would i...
ERIC HOFFER To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain e...
ERIC HOFFER For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be....
ERIC ROTH The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se...
ERIC BERNE It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ...
ERIC FONER Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn'...
ERIC IDLE Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
ERIC HOFFER It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposi...
ERIC HOFFER There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmar...
ERIC HOFFER The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
ERIC HOFFER It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
ERIC HOFFER It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create someth...
ERIC HOFFER Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist...
ERIC HOFFER It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and presen...
ERIC HOFFER Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stu...
ERIC HOFFER An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyth...
ERIC HOFFER Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
ERIC HOFFER No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p...
ERIC HOFFER One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of t...
ERIC HOFFER In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...
ERIC HOFFER I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
ERIC HOFFER The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things o...
ERIC HOFFER The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
ERIC HOFFER You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
ERIC BURDON If you think you can do it, you can.
ERIC LINDROS Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and...
ERIC HOFFER