Being Quote by Leigh Bardugo

One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I've always been that…

— Mick Ralphs

It was so cool to be listening to, I don't know, some Cocteau Twins song while I was running through the Slovakian wilderness.

— Esme Creed-Miles

I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he…

— Alan Vega

Growing up in Middlesbrough [in England], I listened to artists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Howlin' Wolf. It was like another world. Something…

— Paul Rodgers

I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican…

— Damian Marley

I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Smith blues LPs. That's when I started to sing.

— Judith Durham

John Farrar, my dear friend and songwriter/producer of most of my hits (he wrote "You're The One That I Want" and "Hopelessly Devoted to…

— Olivia Newton-John

When 'Tracks' first came out, I was courted by Sydney Pollack. I had lunch with him, and he opened the conversation with, 'Honey, you…

— Robyn Davidson

I met Frank Farian and he asked if I would work with him on this project. And four to five months later, we had…

— Liz Mitchell

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

When I was recording my first solo album 'Imaginaryland,' I was listening to a lot of movie scores.

— Petra Haden

I produced a song for Bobby Vee called Get The Message.

— Jimmy Griffin