I've always loved French music. My parents adored it; my…

My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to…

— Johnny Griffin

I would have loved it - without the French

— DH Lawrence

“The boys at the baths loved me. Of course, they were all drunk and high and would've loved a French poodle barking out "Jingle…

— Holly Woodlawn

I went to Brown to be a French professor, and I didn't know what I was doing except that I loved French. When I…

— Andre Leon Talley

Well, the thing is I always listened to American music way more than French music.

— Jain

My mom spent like a decade of her life living in Paris, and I grew up listening to a lot of French music as…

— Ramy Youssef

It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize 'The Virgin Suicides' soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

— Matthew Gray Gubler

My dad loved jazz, so there was a little Miles Davis, Otis Redding, Donny Hathaway. My mum is French, so she'd listen to a…

— Arlo Parks

The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.

— Laurent Brancowitz

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?

— Bette Midler

I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on the radio,…

— Linda Ronstadt

I first started playing in piano bars for three reasons - to make money, to be in the company of my friends - and…

— Andrea Bocelli

Involve yourself every day. Work hard and figure out how to love acting all day, every day. It's getting into a made-up situation and…

— Jeff Goldblum

I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life.

— Dianne Reeves

My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke would come…

— Merry Clayton