I gravitate to rhythmic music, so I listen to jazz, world…

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different…

— Rokia Traore

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the…

— Ruben Blades

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing.…

— Derek Bailey

My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.

— Keith Emerson

I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all…

— Gary Burton

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling…

— Honore de Balzac

My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and…

— Madeleine Peyroux

I have always listened to Indian music online, much before my first visit to the country in 2015. But, when I got to India,…

— DJ Snake

My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and…

— Yael Naim

The success of Indian music at the Oscars is a great achievement.

— Gulzar

The film producers have to understand that melody is the base of Indian music - they have to come back to that. Else, we'll…

— Kumar Sanu

I was actually going for the pre-medicine track and studying for my MCATs and then I decided to follow my passion, which was music.…

— Vidya Vox

I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.

— Kailash Kher

I wish to contribute more to south Indian music, especially Tamil music.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

I want to bring Indian music to the mainstream.

— Vidya Vox