Jeffrey Osborne Quotes

Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.

My voice is a combination of how I grew up and what I was listening to growing up. I like a lot of different kinds of music and am always being inspired in different ways by different artists for different reasons.

My music comes from my personal background.

Everything I hear influences me. I can't tell you all my influences as a musician.

My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.

I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers.

We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, which has probably informed the way that I sing on my tracks.

I was raised on pop music.

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

I was raised around music.

My music is very reminiscent of the sound I grew up on and the place where that happened. It's a combination of everything I'm inspired by.

It's been in my musical DNA since I was a little kid. I think musical theatre has really influenced everything I've done.

I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.

My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.

I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.

Just coming from a musical family, I was always surrounded by it. On the car rides to school, my mom loved playing A Tribe Called Quest and the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' and then my dad was listening to a lot of Bill Withers and Stevie Wonder.

My earliest memories are listening to my Grandmother playing the piano at our house as I jumped up and down on the couch. She was a violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony in the 30s and 40s, and was a huge influence on me.

I have been influenced by music. I grew up listening to blues, jazz and all.

Most pianists listen to about four or five different piano players before they call it quits and say, 'Okay, I've got my thing together.' Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett and maybe Chick Corea. Or maybe before that, Oscar Peterson.

When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that.