Actually Quote by Arlo Guthrie

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

— Bobby McFerrin

My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but…

— Corey Taylor

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and…

— Brandi Carlile

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.

— Horace Silver

Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang…

— Jay DeMarcus

I always have been very musically influenced because of my dad. He had a very big record collection, so I dabbled in different genres.

— Lil Xan

The Beatles were a huge influence on me to write really good melodies.

— Kim Shattuck

The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

— Johnny Marr

All my musical influences came from my mom, who did everything to music. She played it 24 hours a day, seven days a week…

— Ne-Yo

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came…

— Jackson Browne

I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy…

— Sara Bareilles

A lot of music influences me in other ways than this, but I've always taken a lot of influence from Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean,…

— Rex Orange County