Beats Quote by Mackenzie Astin

Mozart for me is the No. 1 composer. His music is not just joy or sadness. It's deep emotion with a touch of lightness,…

— Alexandre Desplat

I love stuff like Mozart.

— Robin Gibb

Mozart is my first strength.

— Danielle de Niese

Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between…

— Aaron Copland

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is…

— Jonny Lang

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

— Nobuo Uematsu

Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing…

— Jason Robert Brown

I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the best from…

— Laura Pausini

A lot of music influences me in other ways than this, but I've always taken a lot of influence from Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean,…

— Rex Orange County

Everything I hear influences me. I can't tell you all my influences as a musician.

— Lemmy

My greatest influence came from my parents' love of classical music. We listened to a lot of arias and operas growing up.

— Lara Fabian

Because of Billy Joel, I've been playing piano since I was knee high. The house was always full of music, so of course he's…

— Alexa Ray Joel