Listening Quote by Cliff Williams

I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning…

— Labrinth

I was in bands, like everyone else, when I was 16, 17; I was a little skater listening to Dead Kennedy's and Steel Pole…

— Bonobo

I went to see my first gig when I was 15 - it was Loyle Carner at Shepherd's Bush - and I remember just…

— Arlo Parks

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

— Katey Sagal

It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that…

— Trevor Dunn

Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of…

— Gloria Gaynor

I didn't listen to anything with electric bass, guitars, or drums until I was fifteen!

— Bear McCreary

I worked in a band a long time. As we got older, we became more aware of soul and jazz.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

My first instrument was bass, and the first thing that I remember learning to play that was better than a few notes was Fleetwood…

— George Ezra

Years and years ago, I sang at a blues bar with a band behind me. It was with my friend, my guitar teacher at…

— Josh Holloway

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

— Ben Harper

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

— Robert Plant