Academy Quote by Aaron Brookner

There was something about Hank Williams, Jr. that I really latched onto from an early age.

— Shooter Jennings

I met Jim Jarmusch when I started recording my album 'Ya Nass.' He was writing the script for 'Only Lovers Left Alive.' Jarmusch was…

— Yasmine Hamdan

Gerald Wilson was one of my mentors: he was in his nineties before he passed and, literally, every time I saw him, he'd be…

— Kamasi Washington

I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man…

— Pete Seeger

I had admired Waylon [ Jennings], but I never expected to meet him and get to know him. When I finally moved to Nashville…

— Steve Young

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I…

— Bruce Springsteen

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff…

— Harvey Pekar

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

— Margaret Atwood

I grew up with another pretty darn good writer: Glenn Frey of the Eagles. We were very good friends, and we kind of studied…

— Bob Seger

August Wilson is the one writer that writes about men like my father, who had a fifth grade education, who was a janitor at…

— Viola Davis

My dad was a musician, played on the road and played all of his life. And I grew up in a musical family. I…

— Rickey Medlocke

We had a great educator [in the school band], a man named Larry Laurenzano. He was tough, but we knew that he loved us.…

— Jon Gordon