Kiesza quote: "My sound definitely pays a lot of homage to the Nineties, but not just the dance music. There's also breakbeats, R&B, the big ballads. It's that whole era infused with very modern sounds."

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I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's th...
COCO LEE

I just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&...
KEHLANI

I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that...
BRYSON TILLER

My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also o...
CHRIS STAPLETON

R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from t...
BABYFACE

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KREAYSHAWN

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of moder...
RONNIE WOOD

There are plenty of bands who never get in the charts and it doesn't mean that they're not a...
ELLIE GOULDING

There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic...
DAVID GUETTA

I'm a fan of FKA Twigs, The Weeknd. I love that kind of ambient R&B. I feel like it's ju...
NE-YO

There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out t...
TYGA

In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and ...
BILL CLEGG

But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&a...
JENNIFER LOPEZ

A lot of R&B cats are doing a lot of auto-tune. Tyrese went back to the basics. I love classic s...
LEON BRIDGES

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a par...
JOHN LEGEND

The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although...
TRACY CHAPMAN

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to ove...
CHUCK EDDY

Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJ...
DIPLO

You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of Af...
DAMIAN MARLEY

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NAYVADIUS CASH

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BRIAN SETZER

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JAMIE XX

From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only i...
NICHOLSON BAKER

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ELLE KING

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DAN HILL

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CAITY LOTZ

'When Doves Cry' came out - it sounded like nothing that was on the radio. 'Let's Go...
PRINCE

I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz.
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DRAKE

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MARILYN MANSON

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all j...
OZZY OSBOURNE

I urge younger artists to know that you don't have to be anything you don't want. You can do...
TREY SONGZ

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GEORGE EZRA

My personal style is a big mix. A lot of it's pretty vintage. I love vintage looks. I'm obse...
KACEY MUSGRAVES

I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. The...
AUBREY O'DAY

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NICKI MINAJ

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GRETCHEN PARLATO

There's music to dance to and make love to, music to cry to. I'm starting from scratch, comi...
EL DEBARGE

Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understan...
KASKADE

My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B.
LUIS FONSI

I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sound...
KATHLEEN HANNA

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AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

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JOSE JAMES

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GERRY BECKLEY

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DAN HAWKINS

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
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TIESTO

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention...
JONNY LANG

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a mela...
NORAH JONES

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BRIAN SETZER

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RAY CHARLES

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AIMEE MANN

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DAVID GILMOUR

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

When I think about my great conversations with Marlon Brando on the set of 'Morituri,' I thi...
ERIC BRAEDEN

A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound ...
THE EDGE

I think, with production, I pay very close attention. 'Cause that's my favorite thing in mus...
TRAVIS SCOTT

I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, tha...
CREED BRATTON

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest....
NATE RUESS

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds a...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there'...
ADAM GREEN

I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

To me, skin is alien and kind of weird; it weirds me out. It's strange, but it's also really...
FLUME

Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' ...
DIPLO

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music...
KACEY MUSGRAVES

Hip-hop I never really got really into mainly just because I'm not a big fan of rap. I do like R...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.
BRETT FAVRE

My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more in...
ALISON MOYET

Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't bee...
MARVIN SAPP

The refugee crisis is a challenge for the whole of Europe, and Europe - it's a very fair point t...
EMMANUEL MACRON

I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the ...
MIRA NAIR

It's been really interesting watching people's reactions to the new music, to the old music ...
BRANDON BOYD

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.
BRUNO MARS

Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of...
JENNIFER EGAN

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the M...
STEVE JOBS

The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impr...
STEVE VAI

Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've...
WARREN G

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NE-YO

When it comes to best new artist or album or song of the year, yeah, it's very rare that you see...
MAREN MORRIS

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laugh...
SYLVIA EARLE

White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enoug...
NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN

I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN

It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
DAN HICKS

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the Englis...
ALANIS MORISSETTE

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to ...
SADE ADU

Panamanian boxing is unique - it's very musical. It's almost like a dance. It has a lot to d...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though t...
DEBORAH COX

One time I tried bangs, and people just weren't feeling it at all, but it's my hair. It'...
JUSTINE SKYE

It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people h...
AARON NEVILLE

My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been ...
KAT GRAHAM

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a l...
EVAN DAUGHERTY

I think the kind of chronology of the whole thing was that I was making records in the 70's and 80's...
DAVID SANBORN

It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON

I was singing totally jazz then, but when I heard the Beatles and heard the gospel influence and eve...
BILLY PAUL

There's a lot of haters in Philly, but it's a lot of people that give you support - but way ...
LIL UZI VERT

My sound definitely pays a lot of homage to the Nineties, but not just the dance music. There's also breakbeats, R&B, the big ballads. It's that whole era infused with very modern sounds.

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My sound definitely pays a lot of homage to the Nineties, but not just the dance music. There's also breakbeats, R&B, the big ballads. It's that whole era infused with very modern sounds.

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