Bills Quote by Herbie Hancock

Interestingly enough Miles Davis was an influence, and the way he approached harmonics. And one of my biggest influences was Dionne Warwick, early Dionne…

— Philip Bailey

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

— Lawrence Welk

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

— Mose Allison

I feel like just from having both ends of the spectrum, I was so etched into music, from the time I was a baby.…

— Hayley Williams

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

— Michael Moriarty

When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting things in…

— Wynton Marsalis

Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes.…

— Walter Becker

James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because…

— Michael Jackson

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.

— Elle Varner

I guess my biggest influence was actually my Grandfather. He used to play old records on vinyl, and would play old jazz and soul…

— Ella Henderson

Ultimately, I'd say a lot of my vocal influences are jazz-based, people like Ella Fitzgerald, or Fred Astaire.

— Bill Ward

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

— Iris DeMent