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KELLY JONES I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
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I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Cha...
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I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody i...
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MARK SALLING![]()
Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of ...
KENNY G![]()
My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them...
ALVIN LEE![]()
Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to mor...
KENNY G I was really into Radiohead and Live.
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LAUREN DAIGLE![]()
Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker charac...
BEYONCE KNOWLES My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around m...
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me i...
TONY IOMMI I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis a...
BUTCH TRUCKS My dad listened to a lot of James Taylor when I was growing up. We had a couple of his cassettes in ...
JESSIE MUELLER![]()
I listened to a lot of Marvin Gaye and Motown records.
CHARLIE PUTH Growing up, I listened to a lot of American singer/songwriters, so a lot of Tom Waits, Paul Simon - ...
GEORGE EZRA Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same th...
JAN GARBAREK I have kept a diary,
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I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened ...
GUGU MBATHA-RAW My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carol...
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BRANFORD MARSALIS I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby...
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On Blur bassist Alex James: I used to punch Alex a lot. He used to say really annoying things. I thi...
DAMON ALBARN I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and...
BOZ SCAGGS From the get-go, my musical influences come from hip pop, popular stuff. And then I backtracked into...
DAVE MASON I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think abo...
KIM GORDON I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT It was a time of a lot of political debate and strongly held views. I was a Canadian, but I listened...
JAMES FLAHERTY Anybody who plays jazz can't escape the shadow of John Coltrane. We've been playing various arrangem...
DAVID BALAKRISHNAN I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the ...
JACKIE DESHANNON My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to gro...
HOZIER By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.
HOZIER I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, ...
SARA BAREILLES I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
JOHNNY RAMONE I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz a...
RICHIE HAVENS I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played...
ALEXIS KORNER All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
MOSE ALLISON I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming ...
CHARLIE HADEN![]()
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and fo...
IAN ANDERSON![]()
Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and gu...
DAVE MUSTAINE When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated.
JOHN FUSCO All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
MOSE ALLISON Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' ...
ALEX WINSTON![]()
As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents wer...
ALANIS MORISSETTE![]()
The clarinet is not so dominant in Israeli music as it is in klezmer. I heard klezmer when I was gro...
ANAT COHEN My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, ...
ELLA EYRE I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the ti...
REBECCA SUGAR I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really ...
AL JARREAU The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent ...
MARK HOPPUS![]()
My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so...
J. D. SOUTHER The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was ...
WIN BUTLER![]()
I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straig...
DINAH SHORE At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened t...
HERBIE HANCOCK When I was growing up, records meant everything to me,
FRED ARMISEN All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.
RACHEL BLOOM![]()
One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to c...
STEVE WINWOOD I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up.
TARAN KILLAM I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-s...
ELLE KING From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing u...
KATHLEEN BATTLE![]()
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books ...
MOBY I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.
ST. LUCIA I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. ...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timb...
HAILEE STEINFELD![]()
I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, thes...
HARVEY PEKAR![]()
I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's tak...
MARC MARON Alex played well. Alex was Alex. He was steady and hit a lot of fairways.
BEN BERSHAD![]()
I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original ...
ELISHA CUTHBERT![]()
Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new...
AMY WINEHOUSE I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lo...
LANCE BURTON![]()
[This week Marcel listened to the just-rediscovered tapes of a 1957 session of the Thelonious Monk q...
MARY STUART![]()
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just...
ETTA JAMES Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
ALEXIS KORNER It was really interesting. I was there as a representative and listened to what new projects are com...
ANDREA GARIBAY I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, ...
OTIS RUSH The wins by Alex and John were really the story of the match. If they don't win, it's 3-3 going into...
ANDY BRUNNER My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
HOZIER I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't kn...
FRANK OZ![]()
I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honest...
CORNEL WEST![]()
I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and...
BILL PAXTON Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there ...
BOZ SCAGGS![]()
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to ...
DAN AUERBACH![]()
I knew I wanted to do music at eight years of age. I listened to a lot of Motown growing up, and it ...
CONRAD SEWELL I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ...
TED KING![]()
I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or...
STEVEN STRAIT I was lucky enough to grow up in a house where we listened to all kinds of music. We listened to Hai...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT I wanted to do something that had a purely musical inspiration, and I was inspired by the sound of c...
ANNE DUDLEY![]()
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
BEAR GRYLLS![]()
Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think wh...
NENEH CHERRY Alex takes up a lot of cage and he plays good angles. He also makes some nice outlet passes on the t...
KELLY ANTHONY![]()
When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to...
HA-JOON CHANG Atlantic kept up their level of excitement. ... Artists like John Coltrane -- these are mythical art...
LENNY KAYE![]()
My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like ...
WYNTON MARSALIS![]()
When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
GARY CLARK, JR. I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never l...
MAGDA APANOWICZ![]()
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have list...
DAVID GILMOUR My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE![]()
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS
KELLY JONES I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
TED KING
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Cha... ERIC CLAPTON
I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody i... TRACY CHAPMAN A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this...
GEORGE EZRA I love nineties stuff like Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails. It'd be my dream to have a Radio...
MARK SALLING
Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of ... KENNY G
My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them... ALVIN LEE
Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to mor... KENNY G I was really into Radiohead and Live.
ST. LUCIA When I was about 18, I really started diving into Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer Trio and some of...
LAUREN DAIGLE
Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker charac... BEYONCE KNOWLES My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around m...
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me i...
TONY IOMMI I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis a...
BUTCH TRUCKS My dad listened to a lot of James Taylor when I was growing up. We had a couple of his cassettes in ...
JESSIE MUELLER
I listened to a lot of Marvin Gaye and Motown records. CHARLIE PUTH Growing up, I listened to a lot of American singer/songwriters, so a lot of Tom Waits, Paul Simon - ...
GEORGE EZRA Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same th...
JAN GARBAREK I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I
I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened ... GUGU MBATHA-RAW My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carol...
JAKE EPSTEIN
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions ... BRANFORD MARSALIS I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby...
HOZIER
On Blur bassist Alex James: I used to punch Alex a lot. He used to say really annoying things. I thi... DAMON ALBARN I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and...
BOZ SCAGGS From the get-go, my musical influences come from hip pop, popular stuff. And then I backtracked into...
DAVE MASON I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think abo...
KIM GORDON I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT It was a time of a lot of political debate and strongly held views. I was a Canadian, but I listened...
JAMES FLAHERTY Anybody who plays jazz can't escape the shadow of John Coltrane. We've been playing various arrangem...
DAVID BALAKRISHNAN I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the ...
JACKIE DESHANNON My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to gro...
HOZIER By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.
HOZIER I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, ...
SARA BAREILLES I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
JOHNNY RAMONE I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz a...
RICHIE HAVENS I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played...
ALEXIS KORNER All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
MOSE ALLISON I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming ...
CHARLIE HADEN
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and fo... IAN ANDERSON
Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and gu... DAVE MUSTAINE When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated.
JOHN FUSCO All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
MOSE ALLISON Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' ...
ALEX WINSTON
As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents wer... ALANIS MORISSETTE
The clarinet is not so dominant in Israeli music as it is in klezmer. I heard klezmer when I was gro... ANAT COHEN My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, ...
ELLA EYRE I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the ti...
REBECCA SUGAR I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really ...
AL JARREAU The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent ...
MARK HOPPUS
My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so... J. D. SOUTHER The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was ...
WIN BUTLER
I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straig... DINAH SHORE At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened t...
HERBIE HANCOCK When I was growing up, records meant everything to me,
FRED ARMISEN All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.
RACHEL BLOOM
One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to c... STEVE WINWOOD I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up.
TARAN KILLAM I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-s...
ELLE KING From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing u...
KATHLEEN BATTLE
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books ... MOBY I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.
ST. LUCIA I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. ...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timb...
HAILEE STEINFELD
I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, thes... HARVEY PEKAR
I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's tak... MARC MARON Alex played well. Alex was Alex. He was steady and hit a lot of fairways.
BEN BERSHAD
I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original ... ELISHA CUTHBERT
Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new... AMY WINEHOUSE I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lo...
LANCE BURTON
[This week Marcel listened to the just-rediscovered tapes of a 1957 session of the Thelonious Monk q... MARY STUART
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just... ETTA JAMES Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
ALEXIS KORNER It was really interesting. I was there as a representative and listened to what new projects are com...
ANDREA GARIBAY I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, ...
OTIS RUSH The wins by Alex and John were really the story of the match. If they don't win, it's 3-3 going into...
ANDY BRUNNER My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
HOZIER I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't kn...
FRANK OZ
I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honest... CORNEL WEST
I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and... BILL PAXTON Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there ...
BOZ SCAGGS
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to ...
DAN AUERBACH
I knew I wanted to do music at eight years of age. I listened to a lot of Motown growing up, and it ... CONRAD SEWELL I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ...
TED KING
I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or... STEVEN STRAIT I was lucky enough to grow up in a house where we listened to all kinds of music. We listened to Hai...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT I wanted to do something that had a purely musical inspiration, and I was inspired by the sound of c...
ANNE DUDLEY
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up. BEAR GRYLLS
Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think wh... NENEH CHERRY Alex takes up a lot of cage and he plays good angles. He also makes some nice outlet passes on the t...
KELLY ANTHONY
When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to... HA-JOON CHANG Atlantic kept up their level of excitement. ... Artists like John Coltrane -- these are mythical art...
LENNY KAYE
My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like ... WYNTON MARSALIS
When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs. GARY CLARK, JR. I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never l...
MAGDA APANOWICZ
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have list... DAVID GILMOUR My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS
Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger. 
Because that was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and h... 
You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at ... 
I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the... 
Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn
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New blo... 
You are new here, so I will explain. In this land, nobility comes not from one’s fathers or a titl... 