Bounce Quote by Ethel Cain

Every person I've met has influenced my songs.

— James Blunt

People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to…

— Isaac Hanson

I listen to a pretty wide variety of albums so as to get influenced by nothing particular.

— William Beckett

A lot of people go, "I'm influenced by the Beatles and Zeppelin," and they just sound like a karaoke.

— Phil Collen

A lot of music influences me in other ways than this, but I've always taken a lot of influence from Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean,…

— Rex Orange County

As a songwriter, I feel like, just for inspiration and research purposes, I have to listen to everything.

— Maren Morris

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

— Dan Mangan

We were teens in the Eighties, and that's the kind of music that we all grew up on. When you're in those really formative…

— Tony Kanal

I've been influenced by so many great people , like Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, so many great…

— Paul Rodgers

Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder.

— Jon Secada

When my friends were listening to hip-hop or R&B, I was in the crib listening to Billy Joel and Michael Bolton, Luther Vandross, and…

— Robert Glasper

I'm always just referencing whatever I'm listening to or wherever I am musically.

— Bonobo