Arlo Guthrie
Related One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist. ELLE VARNER Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences. GORDON WALLER ERIC IDLE I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and ... KATE BUSH In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience. RANDAL KLEISER TOM LEHRER My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for re... TOM CHAPIN I have mixed feelings about 'Car 54, Where Are You?' Because we shot it as a musical and who... JOHN C. MCGINLEY Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical... LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop song... NEIL TENNANT Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's... BEN GIBBARD Becoming a fan of (any musical style) is much like joining a particular church. It's often not the m... ARVED ASHBY To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes... ZAC BROWN I did meet 'The Everly Brothers' once, and we talked for awhile. Then we figured out we were... JAMES BEST TEDDY THOMPSON Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on s... JON BATISTE As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed. BASHAR AL-ASSAD Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned. DAVID KOECHNER GORDON GETTY MARIO CANTONE JOHN MELLENCAMP People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional... RANDY BACHMAN MARIA MONTESSORI CHUCK D As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism. MARK MOTHERSBAUGH BRANFORD MARSALIS But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were. NEIL INNES My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musica... MARSHA NORMAN GARRY TRUDEAU Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism. DICK VAN DYKE JEF RASKIN Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned. DAVE MADDEN I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere... CHARLEY PRIDE As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway. GERHARD SCHRODER I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straigh... ADAM RAPP Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really w... MACEO PARKER I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige. ESTELLE From the get-go, my musical influences come from hip pop, popular stuff. And then I backtracked into... DAVE MASON Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers ... HOZIER My family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life. CASEY JAMES GEORGE HARRISON ELVIS PRESLEY LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA The mark of a good musical is songs that leave the audience humming as they leave the theater, and t... JOHN OLIVE KINA GRANNIS I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, bec... MARY GAITSKILL NICK HORNBY I was a huge fan of the bandleader Ray Noble when I was younger. He was one of the biggest musical n... JUNE WHITFIELD I am quite convinced now... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my s... ERIC HILL ETHEL MERMAN BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN TAYLOR SWIFT All my girlfriends were learning musical instruments - forced to learn musical instruments because i... JOAN CHEN As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine. GERHARD SCHRODER HELEN REDDY My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and th... TIM HEIDECKER BERTIE CARVEL As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they... JOHNNY RAMONE JULIE ANDREWS I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well. LOU GRAMM JEANETTE WINTERSON ANAT COHEN Listening to all these different musical genres from all over the world and listening to my father&#... LUKAS FORCHHAMMER CHELSEA LEYLAND I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument. MIKE FIGGIS We spent two months in a little house, once frequented by Kate Bush, actually, so it had a bit of mu... GARY LIGHTBODY Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan. BILLY SHEEHAN Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor... SAM BARRY I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA the... TATYANA ALI The house was huge, and the third floor actually had a room that looked out over the football field.... DAVE TRESSEL I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin... PHIL ANSELMO AURORA A. R. RAHMAN VIKRAM SETH GLORIA ESTEFAN We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot... BRIAN SETZER NICK JONAS The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer ... BRYAN FERRY ALBERT EINSTEIN We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs. EDGAR WINTER CHRISTOPHER WALKEN My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace. GILBERT HERNANDEZ J. D. SOUTHER GEORGE HARRISON Both me and Ishmeet were very naughty. We used to have my grandfather's swords in the house. We ... KARAN SINGH GROVER I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said '... CASSIE STEELE MARCIA GAY HARDEN I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two o... BILL SKARSGARD THE WEEKND EDWARD SAPIR BLYTHE DANNER Michelle is a very talented Irish dancer. Chris Foster has the same influences as mine. He's mostly ... JIM ANGELL Musicians! Nothing is new under the sun. We are all extensions and reflections of our personal music... MARCOS CURIEL I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven... S. TRUETT CATHY His style of playing, particularly in his early years, was a stunning patrician elegance with a very... ISAAC STERN As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my vo... SINEAD O'CONNOR DOLLY PARTON DARREN ARONOFSKY I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic. BILLY SHERWOOD
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WOODY GUTHRIE Take it easy, but take it. WOODY GUTHRIE You have to give all the credit to them -- for the way they shot, for the way they played, for the w... BOB GUTHRIE After Marion-Franklin beat us (117-84 on Jan. 24), we went back to the drawing board. And they took ... BOB GUTHRIE We really played Independence pretty well, we just had that bad spell we have every game. I think we... BOB GUTHRIE We can't put four good quarters together. Against Independence (79-61 loss Dec. 16) we were up 34-30... BOB GUTHRIE THOMAS GUTHRIE Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me. WOODY GUTHRIE I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pre... WOODY GUTHRIE Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-g... WOODY GUTHRIE Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change... 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CHARLES GUTHRIE [The show ended as likely everyone in the audience had hoped: with Colvin joining Hiatt for a joinin... WOODY GUTHRIE One of the things I love about New York is that it's one of the only places where you could have... SAVANNAH GUTHRIE I should get a manicure more often. SAVANNAH GUTHRIE THOMAS GUTHRIE He was like a sponge. WOODY GUTHRIE It's so encompassing that almost any other state's issue would nest within it. JAMES GUTHRIE My dad always said there was something in the soil that made them sweet. BILLY GUTHRIE I would love to have an animal sanctuary in Franklin County. We're looking for someone who could don... CONNIE GUTHRIE There is a dark side to Allan Guthrie, but only at the weekends. ALLAN GUTHRIE As I went walking I saw a sign thereWOODY GUTHRIE Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change... 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