Audience Quote by Mark Naftalin

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else…

— B. B. King

“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that…

— E.M. Forster

Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with…

— Madeleine Stowe

“the way the music was written seemed to be individualized, meaning that each person that listened to the music heard something different; it just…

— Jamie Magee

“He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget that there…

— Seldon Edwards

My father being a theatre person used to compose music for his plays. He noticed me singing one of his compositions at a young…

— Meghana Raj

I was the audience he wanted to reach. Gram Parsons' writing brought his own personal generations poetry and vision into the very traditional format…

— Emmylou Harris

Jim had melodies as well as words. He didn't know how to play a chord on any instrument, but he had melodies in his…

— John Densmore

My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened…

— Talib Kweli

My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience.…

— Arthur Rubinstein

Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.

— Edwidge Danticat

The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle…

— Tony Kushner