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here we were again , always saying good-bye
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BENJAMIN BOOKER
As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire B... CHRIS CORNELL I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own ...
LEON BRIDGES
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and ... JESSE MCCARTNEY The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Taberna...
DAVE BRUBECK My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their re...
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TARAN KILLAM It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which alway...
JENNINE CAPó CRUCET
I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the s... CHARLIE PUTH I think the most-played record in our house was the 'Big Chill' Soundtrack - so Smokey Robin...
CHET FAKER I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-s...
ELLE KING My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
HOZIER
When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: G... DOLLY PARTON I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON
I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understan... SAMANTHA STOSUR Im telling you, my heart was beating in my throat over the last four holes. This is a huge opportuni...
THOMAS AIKEN Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
MANIKA
My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can remember was to be an entertainer. BRITTANY MURPHY My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I ...
NATALIA TENA When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, ...
ADAM LAMBERT I have an extensive library - every birthday when I was a kid my parents would ask what movie or boo...
MARK BRIDGES I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.
HELEN WILLS MOODY I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of pl...
TAIYE SELASI 'Superbad' and 'Remember the Titans' - two movies I can watch over and over again. I...
CARL HAGELIN Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tap...
MADI DIAZ My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ...
MADI DIAZ Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and peopl...
PERCY SLEDGE
I remember this song by Clay Walker that came out in the '90s called 'This Woman and This Ma... COLE SWINDELL I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was pic...
MARY LOU WILLIAMS
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenag... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over...
AUDIE MURPHY
At the time, there was a great disagreement over 'The Wild and the Innocent,' and I was aske... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my ... JOHN SULSTON I was raised with my mother saying over and over again to me, “If your friends jumped off the Broo...
DEBORAH SIMPSON
I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one af... BAHMAN GHOBADI
I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man an... NEIL GAIMAN I had a long, long time to make 'Rubberband,' and I originally thought that that record woul...
CHARLIE WORSHAM I've been bisexual for as long as I can remember. I remember being made fun of in junior high fo...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I ...
TARON EGERTON
I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a l... MAYER HAWTHORNE For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald...
WARREN G 'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous in...
DANIEL HANDLER A woman's body never really belongs to herself. As an infant, my body was my mother's, a det...
ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was...
TAMMIN SURSOK As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over ho...
VALERIE JUNE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were g...
SYLVIA ROBINSON
As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something. CHAD HURLEY
When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that come... ESTHER WILLIAMS
I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my t... VANESSA HUDGENS Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took...
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HARMONY KORINE
here we were again , always saying good-bye MAGGIE STIEFVATER I pride myself on catching the ball, and when that happens, it hurts. As soon as the play was over, ...
JASON WALLACE One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tri...
NATHANIEL RATELIFF
My parents told me from the time I can remember that, 'Yeah, you're adopted. But this is you... COLIN KAEPERNICK Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From ...
EMAYATZY CORINEALDI
I've gone through many phases in music in my life. Before I was signed, I was making completely ... CHARLIE PUTH I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life&#...
PAMELA ADLON
On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as... NIA VARDALOS
I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball. BARRY BONDS I have kept a diary,
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TAJ MAHAL If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'...
MANUTE BOL I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people ...
BONNIE TYLER I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven...
KATE BECKINSALE
'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day... WALTER BECKER
My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, ... BRIE LARSON
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can lite... TOM STOPPARD I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So...
DOUGLAS MCGRATH He believed very strongly in the mission and he believed in what he was doing over there. I am going...
MICHAEL PROCOPIO I want people to see an honesty within me. I'm not trying to be the next Sam Cooke or Otis Reddi...
LEON BRIDGES I used to play Donna Karan. I used my dad's home office, and Kim was my assistant. Then one of o...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN I started to think how awesome it would be to hold the Classic record and take over Rojas' record to...
PRESTON CLARK
When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Reddin... NEIL PEART This is as good a collection of players as I can remember.
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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t... MARGARET MITCHELL
The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there ... ELLIE GOULDING
Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a t... ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO
I've never seen 'The Goonies.' I've never seen 'Indiana Jones.' I watched &#... ERIC ANDRE As long as I live I will have control over my being.
ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the...
RANDY BACHMAN The characters I've played as an actress have been really challenging and emotionally rewarding,...
DANIELLE HARRIS
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. MICHAEL JORDAN
I would do a Byrds tour or a Byrds record in a minute. I miss that band now. I've tried to convi... DAVID CROSBY I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said ...
JORDIN SPARKS From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had every...
EDGAR MEYER
My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there we... LYLE LOVETT As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on...
ADAM JONES
I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it wa... ETHEL MERMAN When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record co...
DANIEL JOHNS
It was a lot of hard work, but everyone loved my Amy Childs' Collection, so I decided to have a ... AMY CHILDS I was just running and lowered my shoulder. I just ran him over. It's as simple as that.
TONEY BAKER
As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the ... NEIL ARMSTRONG
As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the ... NEIL ARMSTRONG
My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over... EDGAR WRIGHT
I remember one time I wrote something very, very critical about Wilt Chamberlain. The next time I sa... FRANK DEFORD When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like...
LANGHORNE SLIM For as long as I can remember, I walked, talked, and sang, and entertained. I mean, this picture tha...
DEBBIE GIBSON I'm confused that there is a lack of faith in listening to and deciding what is a great song and...
PATTY GRIFFIN
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