Biography
Born in Tampa, Florida, and raised on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Quinn Arnold is a 20-year-old guitar player, singer-songwriter, and college student. His music fuses a wide variety of contemporary and vintage blues/rock and folk influences such as John Mayer, Grateful Dead, Jack Johnson, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Jimi Hendrix, with the modern country/folk trends of Zach Bryan, Noah Kahan, and Tyler Childers. Recently, his fascination with female vocalists like Etta James and Maggie Rogers have been strong influences on the album he is currently writing. He began his musical journey in middle school, composing electronic and rap arrangements in FL Studio. In eighth grade, he was gifted a guitar for Christmas and fell in love with the instrument. From making beats in his bedroom to performing for hundreds in the streets of his hometown, his love of making music and his love of inspiring others grows stronger by the day. As adept a guitar player as he is a singer, he can connect with people through his sensitively written acoustic songs and wailing guitar solos. He released his first independently produced EP entitled, Strange Dreams, on March 1st, 2025, and currently works to transform his sound every day by continuing to learn from the most important musicians of the last 100 years.
The Mission
After a life-changing experience at a lake house on Lake Bomoseen in Vermont with his family, Quinn's vision for his future became clear. No cell service, no internet, and little connection to the outside world led to days full of fishing, kayaking, reading, and connecting with his family. He realised the dehmunizing nature of the internet and specifically social media. When he started the quinnarnoldmusic Instagram account the day he moved into his freshman year of college, he set out with one goal: connect people to music however possible.
Philosophy
Connecting people to music is ultimately connecting people to the arts; I think the arts are the most human thing there is. For 40,000 years, humans have been making instruments and painting illustrations. This instinct to express ourselves in an abstract way should not be ignored, as it is how we broaden our understanding and strengthen our bond of and with each other. The arts teach us patience, compassion, empathy, and love. I think this quote from Jean-Michel Basquiat is so insightful: "Art is how we decorate space; music is how we decorate time" and I'd like to think that maybe words are how we decorate our thoughts.
I hope to connect more people to the arts to enrich our short time with each other and this complex existence.