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When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.

— Daryl Hall

When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and…

— Ruth Brown

[My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like Alvino Ray.

— Jon Gordon

I stumbled upon Charles White purely by chance while looking through a book 'Great Negroes, Past and Present' in the library at Forty-Ninth Street…

— Kerry James Marshall

I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time.

— Sean William Scott

I knew BB King when he first started out.

— David Edwards

My dad was a third-generation printer and linotype operator, by all accounts a fabulous ballroom dancer. He was jettisoned from the family before I…

— Katherine Dunn

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

— Nicholas Lea

My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge…

— Kary Mullis

I remember To Live And Die In L.A. I saw that in the cinemas when I was young in the '80s. I remember the…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I first met Dr. King in 1954 when I was a student at Alabama State University and a member of a local church down…

— Jesse White

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

— Danny Lyon