Art Quote by Black Thought

I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a…

— Madeleine Peyroux

I grew up with artists.

— Jason Momoa

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

— Norman Wisdom

I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous.

— Mary Ruefle

They weren't musicians or anything, but my dad was a big music fan and so was my mom.

— Uncle Kracker

The label I was on had Dionne, The Shirelles and several other R&B artists. I loved guys like Ray Charles and I tried to…

— B. J. Thomas

I come from a school of artists, the Mission School in San Francisco, and there are a lot of artists I look up to.

— Devendra Banhart

My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years of my…

— Anne Waldman

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging…

— Elton John

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a…

— Van Morrison

My sisters and my brother were all very much into music. A couple of them were dancers.

— Denny Laine

My dad raised me on everything from his music to Stevie Wonder to A Tribe Called Quest. I learned the 'Midnight Marauders' album in…

— Bibi Bourelly