Always Quote by Roger McGuinn

I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know what that means - they…

— Ariel Pink

West Coast hip hop was the sound of my neighbourhood. It was something I could relate to because it had a sound that felt…

— Kamasi Washington

Of course I knew disco and dub from years before but I never heard such a radical new sound like house. It blew my…

— Eddy de Clercq

If people would've heard what we were doing back in the clubs in the late '90s, they would be really shocked to find out…

— Jay DeMarcus

I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot…

— Lana Del Rey

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

— Tony Visconti

Santa Monica was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But its not a defining song for me, though…

— Art Alexakis

I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound.

— Jose Carreras

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

— Bill Hader

When we first started in Los Angeles, we thought of ourselves in our own delusional way as being a British band, even though we'd…

— Ron Mael

The Bay, they got their own sound, they don't try to be like nobody. They smooth out there.

— YBN Nahmir

Yeah, moving to Los Angeles definitely influenced my sound.

— Borns