"I had a friend who was a blues freak; he turned me on to blues. He was the same age as me and he understood rock'n'roll - he knew what Elvis, Fats Domino and Little Richard were all about, but he said, 'How about this?' It didn't take my love of rock'n'roll away and it added the real blues to my consciousness."
"The blues is real. It's not perverted, it's not thought about, it's not a concept - it's a chair. Not a design for a chair, or a better chair, or a bigger chair, or a chair with leather or design - it's the first chair; chairs for sitting on, not chairs for looking at or being appreciated. You sit on that music."
- John Lennon