Beats Quote by Roger McGuinn

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would…

— Steve Forbert

I knew I'd made it when I was sitting on the bus into Rochdale and there was an old man listening to one of…

— Lisa Stansfield

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint. I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.

— Sxip Shirey

I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and…

— Gavin Rossdale

When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me. This is…

— Eric Hutchinson

Back then we were young, we would just mash all forms of music together and come up with something.

— apl.de.ap

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

— Florence Welch

An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to…

— Avey Tare

I have many vivid memories of listening to the folk songs in my village.

— Devi Sri Prasad

It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

— M. Ward

I adopted this idea whether I was going to end up making music for three people in a bar or Wembley Stadium, I was…

— Julien Baker

I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself.…

— Mark Ronson