Girl Quote by Banks

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so…

— Madeleine Peyroux

“I can remember her singing, the thrill of it," she said. "She was one of my first inspirations.The people around me provided all the…

— Taylor Swift

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were…

— Daryl Hall

I grew up listening to Patsy Klein, Reba Mcentire and would study their voices. But once I became bored with that, I moved on…

— Hope Partlow

(Talking about her grandmother Marjorie Finlay)I can remember her singing, the thrill of it," she said. "She was one of my first inspirations.The people…

— Taylor Swift

Growing up, I listened to a lot of everything - I fell in love with music, when I discovered people like Lauryn Hill and…

— Banks

“She was like a song on the radio that touches a person so profoundly they call the station just to find out who sang…

— Michael Banebrook

I would say Tracy Chapman was the first time I obsessed over an entire record. I knew every song; I knew the exact amount…

— Kelela

It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome…

— Deborah Cox

I love Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple. People like that. People you can really connect to on the most basic human level.

— Banks

She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the…

— James A. Baldwin

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

— Max Beerbohm