I am thankful to Nichia Chemical Corporation and its founder Nobu Ogawa, who gave me the research opportunity to create a blue LED.
I've always loved aggressive, hard, noisy, yet melodic bands, and at the same time I've always loved 'Blue' by Joni Mitchell.
Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.
That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.
It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.
My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.
I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.
When I'm back home in Chicago, since 'Roseanne' was such a Midwestern, blue-collar show, that's what sticks out in people's minds.
It was a great thing for the Blues boys to do in terms of shaving their hair off for me. The whole squad did it. At first I thought it was only going to be a handful of boys, but fair play, they all did it, and a few of the coaches as well.
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.
People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.
Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.
The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.
I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.