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At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.

— Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

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✓Similar Perspectives

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

— John Goodman

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

— Otis Blackwell

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

— Jewel

I once took a ride to the beach in L.A., and all along the shore there were all these so-called jazz places. And I saw these college guys and session players playing this fusion Muzak stuff. It was just a lot of notes, and the more notes they played, the more it kept them from expressing anything. So I came back home and got out my Zeppelin albums.

— Jeff Buckley

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

— Debra Wilson

It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.

— Jay McShann

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

— Karen Black

I just wanted to sing, in church or wherever.

— George Jones

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

— Justin Timberlake

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

— Gary Burton