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JAN HAMMER![]()
Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listen...
ACTION BRONSON I grew up listening to the radio and to records. I learned music mainly from that.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, g...
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JANE WIEDLIN I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's pr...
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If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is...
VERA NAZARIAN I grew up listening to Patsy Klein, Reba Mcentire and would study their voices. But once I became bo...
HOPE PARTLOW I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def L...
NATALIE MACMASTER![]()
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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KAT DAHLIA I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country mus...
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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 grew up listening to popular music. My father was a Peruvian folk singer. He played the guitar at ...
JUAN DIEGO FLOREZ![]()
You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the b...
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I play rock music but grew up with Massive Attack and Tricky. I am not just some rock musician; I wa...
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I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.
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When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied...
MOBY I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-rol...
ROBBY KRIEGER![]()
In New York, my dad raised me to listen to everything like hip-hop, rock and country music. When I m...
POST MALONE![]()
I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between...
HARVEY PEKAR I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
BAZ LUHRMANN I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to t...
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I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, ...
JOHN LEGEND 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 Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.
ALAN VEGA![]()
I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite...
BLAKE SHELTON We grew up listening to a variety of music, such as Gospel/Christian, R&B old/new school, jazz, ...
MICHELLE CARTER I grew up listening to Switchfoot. I love Switchfoot; they're a great band. John Foreman is awes...
SHANE HARPER![]()
I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
BILL WYMAN![]()
I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that ...
REGGIE WATTS That's folk music, swing, country blues, old time country, jazz. It's the roots of American music.
DOMINIC SUCHYTA I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Arg...
J. D. PARDO![]()
As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing ...
IDINA MENZEL I'm listening to everything from Weather Report to Garbage and everything in-between.
BILLY SHERWOOD In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from w...
RENZO PIANO![]()
I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of ...
PENN JILLETTE![]()
I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
BILL WYMAN I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.
PHOEBE SNOW![]()
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can...
BONO My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen -...
CASEY ABRAMS When I write, I'm trying to put what I love into music. Everything through my life, the music that i...
ANDREW YORK![]()
Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.
RYAN LOCHTE I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.
TAMMIN SURSOK I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think abo...
KIM GORDON My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought an...
HALEY REINHART I've made rock records, classical records, jazz records, dub records. It always surprises me that pe...
TOM BAILEY I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, which has probably informed the way that I sing on my tr...
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I think with me and the type of music that I'm trying to make, it's always going be soulful ...
CHARLIE PUTH I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of...
BEN HARPER I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up eve...
TRAVIS BARKER Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful th...
MADELEINE PEYROUX He used to have home gym and you look up to your dad. I wanted to do everything he did. I just ended...
KIPP ALLEN I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's th...
COCO LEE When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me wan...
MIGUEL ZENON Jazz: it's got folk, it's got funk, it's got various international influences...it's also got some p...
EMBER SWIFT![]()
I like everything from hard-style techno to rock n' roll.
KODI SMIT-MCPHEE![]()
I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the wa...
IRIS APFEL The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, liste...
D'ANGELO I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is...
GABRIELLE APLIN My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old...
ZAC BROWN Survey results found that people were listening to types of music they weren't interested in before....
MARK KOTKIN There's more to life than listening to rock music.
FRANK BLACK When we grew up, we had the milkman, the butchers and bakers who delivered. With the new wave of del...
PATRICK DUPARCQ I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.
ELLEN PAGE![]()
I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexic...
SALMA HAYEK Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European ...
THE EDGE I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out...
BRENDAN FRASER We're absolutely honored. I'm in my 30s, so I grew up listening to Tupac I grew up on a farm in N...
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Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk ro...
NICK RHODES![]()
Style has always been very important to us, ... We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk ro...
NICK RHODES![]()
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and fo...
IAN ANDERSON You're encouraged when you get older to get mellow, get reflective, get laid back. I don't understan...
STEVE WYNN When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It is...
CARLA BLEY![]()
I just always wanted to play music and everything that followed from that just tumbled on, one thing...
GREG LAKE I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
GARY CARTER You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they'...
CASEY ABRAMS Ever feel like everything is just moving to fast,and you just dont know how to keep up
NADIRA AHMED 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![]()
...The Little From Everything...
DEYTH BANGER When I started my airline business, I didn't know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper t...
TONY FERNANDES We have everything from folk to punk, but it doesn't help that there is no place to play.
AARON BAER![]()
Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson....
AUSTIN MAHONE I grew up listening to the Light Crust Doughboys on WBAP.
JOHNNY GIMBLE I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met i...
KING TUFF I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship...
ADRIAN MITCHELL Walk one, walk two, rock step one, rock step two and tango, close.
STEVE GILLIS![]()
The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN![]()
I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
ORSON SCOTT CARD![]()
Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to ...
ZOE SALDANA
BEN HARPER I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
KATEY SAGAL I grew up listening to a lot of classic rock, everything from the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin to ...
JOSH NIELSEN Maybe there'll be new bits of music that will start showing up. You know? Like what happened in the ...
JAN HAMMER
Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listen... ACTION BRONSON I grew up listening to the radio and to records. I learned music mainly from that.
ROBERT ASHLEY rock 'n' roll, jazz and traditional folk culture.
ROBERT HUNTER
We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, g... QUAVO
I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd. TED CRUZ I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Her...
JANE WIEDLIN I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's pr...
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is... VERA NAZARIAN I grew up listening to Patsy Klein, Reba Mcentire and would study their voices. But once I became bo...
HOPE PARTLOW I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def L...
NATALIE MACMASTER
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. JASPER FFORDE I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get...
KAT DAHLIA I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country mus...
NATALIE MAINES I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, cal...
BEN HARPER
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 grew up listening to popular music. My father was a Peruvian folk singer. He played the guitar at ...
JUAN DIEGO FLOREZ
You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the b... ERIC BURDON
I play rock music but grew up with Massive Attack and Tricky. I am not just some rock musician; I wa... GAVIN ROSSDALE I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confu...
SOPHIE HAWLEY-WELD
I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music. CAROLINE SHAW Jazz is the folk music of the machine age
PAUL WHITEMAN Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
PAUL WHITEMAN
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied... MOBY I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-rol...
ROBBY KRIEGER
In New York, my dad raised me to listen to everything like hip-hop, rock and country music. When I m... POST MALONE
I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between... HARVEY PEKAR I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
BAZ LUHRMANN I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to t...
WAGNER MOURA
I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, ... JOHN LEGEND 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 Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.
ALAN VEGA
I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite... BLAKE SHELTON We grew up listening to a variety of music, such as Gospel/Christian, R&B old/new school, jazz, ...
MICHELLE CARTER I grew up listening to Switchfoot. I love Switchfoot; they're a great band. John Foreman is awes...
SHANE HARPER
I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll. BILL WYMAN
I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that ... REGGIE WATTS That's folk music, swing, country blues, old time country, jazz. It's the roots of American music.
DOMINIC SUCHYTA I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Arg...
J. D. PARDO
As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing ... IDINA MENZEL I'm listening to everything from Weather Report to Garbage and everything in-between.
BILLY SHERWOOD In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from w...
RENZO PIANO
I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of ... PENN JILLETTE
I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll. BILL WYMAN I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.
PHOEBE SNOW
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can... BONO My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen -...
CASEY ABRAMS When I write, I'm trying to put what I love into music. Everything through my life, the music that i...
ANDREW YORK
Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in... DANIEL BARENBOIM I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.
RYAN LOCHTE I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.
TAMMIN SURSOK I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think abo...
KIM GORDON My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought an...
HALEY REINHART I've made rock records, classical records, jazz records, dub records. It always surprises me that pe...
TOM BAILEY I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, which has probably informed the way that I sing on my tr...
ERIK HASSLE
I think with me and the type of music that I'm trying to make, it's always going be soulful ... CHARLIE PUTH I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of...
BEN HARPER I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up eve...
TRAVIS BARKER Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful th...
MADELEINE PEYROUX He used to have home gym and you look up to your dad. I wanted to do everything he did. I just ended...
KIPP ALLEN I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's th...
COCO LEE When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me wan...
MIGUEL ZENON Jazz: it's got folk, it's got funk, it's got various international influences...it's also got some p...
EMBER SWIFT
I like everything from hard-style techno to rock n' roll. KODI SMIT-MCPHEE
I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the wa... IRIS APFEL The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, liste...
D'ANGELO I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is...
GABRIELLE APLIN My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old...
ZAC BROWN Survey results found that people were listening to types of music they weren't interested in before....
MARK KOTKIN There's more to life than listening to rock music.
FRANK BLACK When we grew up, we had the milkman, the butchers and bakers who delivered. With the new wave of del...
PATRICK DUPARCQ I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.
ELLEN PAGE
I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexic... SALMA HAYEK Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European ...
THE EDGE I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out...
BRENDAN FRASER We're absolutely honored. I'm in my 30s, so I grew up listening to Tupac I grew up on a farm in N...
JEFF BOWLER
Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk ro... NICK RHODES
Style has always been very important to us, ... We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk ro... NICK RHODES
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and fo... IAN ANDERSON You're encouraged when you get older to get mellow, get reflective, get laid back. I don't understan...
STEVE WYNN When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It is...
CARLA BLEY
I just always wanted to play music and everything that followed from that just tumbled on, one thing... GREG LAKE I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
GARY CARTER You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they'...
CASEY ABRAMS Ever feel like everything is just moving to fast,and you just dont know how to keep up
NADIRA AHMED 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
...The Little From Everything... DEYTH BANGER When I started my airline business, I didn't know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper t...
TONY FERNANDES We have everything from folk to punk, but it doesn't help that there is no place to play.
AARON BAER
Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson.... AUSTIN MAHONE I grew up listening to the Light Crust Doughboys on WBAP.
JOHNNY GIMBLE I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met i...
KING TUFF I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship...
ADRIAN MITCHELL Walk one, walk two, rock step one, rock step two and tango, close.
STEVE GILLIS
The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know. ORSON SCOTT CARD
Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to ... ZOE SALDANA
