Area Quote by Curt Smith

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

— Neil Diamond

I grew up in the backyard of music from all angles.

— Quincy Brown

I grew up in Southern California and always loved melodic pop music.

— Belinda Carlisle

'Swan Lake' was my favourite piece of music when I was younger, and I never had a chance to skate to it.

— Kaetlyn Osmond

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note…

— Robbie Robertson

This is the beauty of popular music, that it is based on simple and memorable tunes.

— Ludovico Einaudi

I just always really loved music that was coincidentally from the States.

— Jade Bird

I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview.

— Jimmy Dean

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

— John Goodman

The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars…

— Hannah Simone

When I started playing music it was around Austin and the Hill Country area in Texas and there were always campfires and picking circles…

— Ryan Bingham

I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside -…

— Cliff Martinez