Asks Quote by Regina Spektor

My vocal influences are a lot of jazz singers: Billie Holiday, Julie London, they had this tenderness to their voice.

— Borns

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

— Frank Sinatra

Every person I've met has influenced my songs.

— James Blunt

I think, definitely, I was hugely influenced by - obviously like Adele and Florence the Machine. They were my complete idols growing up. But…

— Freya Ridings

I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that Bessie Smith…

— Billie Holiday

I've been influenced by so many great people , like Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, so many great…

— Paul Rodgers

I'm influenced a lot by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, even Paul Weller - Billie Holiday as well: People who wrote and sang songs that…

— Hozier

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

— Willie Nelson

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

— Dan Mangan

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

— Mose Allison

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most…

— Alan Jackson

If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.

— Haley Reinhart