Heart Quote by Melody Gardot

I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations…

— John Oates

What excites me about a lot of the artists I love - and I realize, well, they created their own personal world that I…

— Bruce Springsteen

I made an album that resonated, and I was lucky that a lot of different kinds of people liked it and contacted me to…

— Peaches

I truly cherish the time and experience with friends that I have been making music with for so many years, even decades now.

— Michael McDonald

I was surrounded by music in my family, surrounded by people who sang songs - every single person I knew as a child growing…

— Roisin Murphy

As a songwriter and a singer in a successful rock band, I have had the good fortune of being surrounded by incredible musicians, lots…

— Ed Kowalczyk

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met…

— Abbey Lincoln

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

It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew…

— Dionne Warwick

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years of my…

— Anne Waldman

I have had some amazing experiences as a musician - even with my modest skills.

— Paul Allen