Influence Quote by Bobby McFerrin

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

— Dan Fogelberg

Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power…

— Roy Wood

My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that…

— David Starkey

Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.

— Win Butler

Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronological order. Both of them have had a very simple-sounding…

— Arlo Guthrie

I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.

— Estelle

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

My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal.

— Michael Moriarty

Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul Simon.

— Hozier

I'm very torn. I write about living in England, but I spent so much time in Florida, and so many of my musical influences…

— Mark Morrison

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love…

— Emmy Rossum

'Supafunkrock' is a musical gumbo. We throw all those musical influences into the pot and put it out there.

— Trombone Shorty