Approach Quote by John Petrucci

James Brown really taught me a lot - his lyrics and his performance and whatever he does when he's onstage. I'll always call him…

— Charles Bradley

Every musician that comes along teaches me something.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

If anything, I learned most from being a huge fan of his and watching movies like Annie Hall and Manhattan over and over again…

— Nicole Holofcener

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

— Duke Ellington

I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent…

— Douglas Adams

You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.

— Gustavo Dudamel

There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of my favourite…

— Paul Weller

I learned from the best storytellers in the world: Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Ne-Yo, Michael Jordan, Vin Diesel, RuPaul.

— Blackbear

I believe in knowing all you can about the music and the people who made the music. I think it's much more important to…

— Sonny Sharrock

Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like…

— Henry Garza

I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.

— Usher

Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.

— Sheena Iyengar