A Quote by Bobby McFerrin

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

Bobby McFerrin

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Bobby McFerrin
American - Musician
Born: March 11, 1950

Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronological order. Both of them have had a very simple-sounding musical style that's actually quite complex as far as popular songs are concerned.

Arlo Guthrie

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.

Elle Varner

Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul Simon.

Hozier

'Supafunkrock' is a musical gumbo. We throw all those musical influences into the pot and put it out there.

Trombone Shorty

Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang their own stuff, I really admired.

Jay DeMarcus

My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.

Shawn Johnson

Listening to all these different musical genres from all over the world and listening to my father's record collection, the Irish folk influences from home. Of course they're all in there somewhere hiding within the lyrics and melodies. But rap music was the biggest influence on my way of writing and my performing.

Lukas Forchhammer

My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

Talib Kweli

My parents were big movie-musical fans. And I thought 'Grease' was different from the usual MGM musical. I was intrigued and fell in love with it.

Lindsay Mendez

I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.

Rachel Platten

My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.

Corey Taylor

Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

Andrew S. Gilbert

Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.

Win Butler

My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal.

Michael Moriarty

Escuela Caribe preyed upon parents' fears of secular culture to recruit students. Parents could send their kids to a place where they'd be sheltered from evil secular influences - sex, drugs, alcohol, and a questioning mentality. A place where children would be forced to become good little clones of their parents.

Julia Scheeres

I think my grandmother was one of my biggest influences.

Curtis Mayfield

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