Art Quote by Sam Ryder

Beyonce, Otis Redding, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, and Adele are a few of my favorites.

— Jenny Han

There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder. Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil…

— Ahmet Ertegun

I think you have a lot of really good artists today. You have your Beyonce, Usher, Nicki Minaj and the like. But our generation,…

— Aretha Franklin

I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and…

— Ian Anderson

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.

— Whitney Houston

I remember being influenced by great artists when I was a kid - not to call myself a great artist - but people who…

— Sarah Jones

Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they…

— Wynton Marsalis

The first artist I really loved was Stevie Wonder. That opened the doors to other soul singers like Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin.

— Olly Alexander

Somebody had to come along and do the format better than we were doing; that didnt happen. Nobody came along to take our place.…

— Don Cornelius

My introduction of Whitney was that if there's going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and lyric phrasing…

— Clive Davis

The first time I arrived in Hollywood for the Grammy Awards, I thought I'd bump into people who mattered, such as Ry Cooder or…

— Chris Rea

Being around people like Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack...had a great impact on me as a singer, as a performer,…

— Whitney Houston