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Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.

— Horace Silver

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making…

— Horace Silver

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as…

— Lionel Richie

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of…

— Nick Cave

You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back…

— Donny Osmond

Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.

— Dee Rees

I've grown up on American songwriters my whole life - listening to Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and people like John Prine - you…

— Passenger

My songwriting is very personal. The music that influenced me was so impactful that had I grown up somewhere else, I know I would…

— Phoebe Bridgers

I've had so many different influences musically, even from people who aren't even musicians. If you're inspired by someone and you document it musically,…

— Mark Salling

I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the…

— Ketch Secor

So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that…

— Herbie Hancock

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music,

— Enya