Diamonds Quote by La'Porsha Renae

'I Get Around' came on one day. I'd never heard the Beach Boys before. The sound was so fresh to me. That was the…

— Mark Foster

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

— Van Morrison

I can say that on the record 'Transit of Venus,' there's maybe one or two songs that actually do come from my heart, but…

— Adam Gontier

Soul and blues were a definite influence on me. It was raw and naked emotion which you didn't get much where I come from.

— Paul Rodgers

I kind of feel like I didn't have much choice. The songs... the playing... those were the only things that ever really kept my…

— Charlie Worsham

Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.

— Dimebag Darrell

The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it.

— Deborah Cox

Obviously, it was a big life change for me and quite a shock to suddenly have these songs I'd written in my bedroom as…

— Brooke Fraser

I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was…

— Blake Shelton

A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.

— Little Richard

Together we made our way down to the street level. Neither of us said a word. The music was awful--Neil Diamond or something. I…

— Rick Riordan

When pop and rock were taking over from jazz, and Sinatra was covering a Beatles song, it was all very new. I get to…

— Michael Buble