Grandmother Quote by Isa Briones

My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night.

— Rakim

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

— Dwight Yoakam

One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and…

— Joan Armatrading

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

— Will Chase

I remember watching `Apollo' with my other grandma - I have so many grandmas - and seeing these young girls sing... I knew in…

— Ari Lennox

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of…

— Jerry Leiber

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

— Victoria Justice

I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be…

— Roseanne Barr

My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big…

— Leonard Slatkin

I can remember in the early 60s that there were a couple of really dynamic women performers at the time - Brenda Lee, there…

— Lesley Gore

My parents used to bring me to Radio City when I was a little girl, so performing there 50 years later was absolutely surreal…

— Wendy Liebman

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in…

— Otis Blackwell