Alanis Morissette
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BRYAN GREENBERG JOHN CENA I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-... TESSA THOMPSON I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie. SOPHIE MCSHERA I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. M... ALICE MCDERMOTT ADAM MCKAY ZENDAYA My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also o... CHRIS STAPLETON ELTON JOHN This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS RAINI RODRIGUEZ YAEL NAIM CLIVE DAVIS I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - a... ELIZA COUPE MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music ... MIKE D I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I ... NAYVADIUS CASH I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest wa... KATE VOEGELE My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their re... GABRIELLE APLIN I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff. TAMMIN SURSOK As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then... KASKADE I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music i... B.O.B As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx,... FAT JOE JOHN MARSHALL I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, a... CHRIS OFILI ASAP ROCKY Growing up, my parents always played artists like Alanis Morissette, Aerosmith and Michael Jackson, ... MANIKA JEFFREY FRY Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you w... ERROL MORRIS IGGY AZALEA I grew up in the '70s, and I hear in my own stuff a lot of what I grew up listening to, which is... JASON ROBERT BROWN MIKE DIRNT Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if y... ERROL MORRIS With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger,... JORDIN SPARKS I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l... INARA GEORGE The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talki... TAYLOR HAWKINS TRACY CHAPMAN I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was ... REBECCA FERGUSON I was listening to the radio and they were playing some music in my cell. I heard a voice through th... 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BLIGE As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes. JON BATISTE I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart elec... GRANDMASTER FLASH There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring ... SEBASTIAN BACH It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country. ROBBIE ROBERTSON SHANIA TWAIN JUSTIN BIEBER THE WEEKND I truly love 'Gangnam Style.' I guess it's a meme. I feel like it's one of the few t... GRIMES You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you. GORDON LIGHTFOOT I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that shoul... BRUCE COCKBURN I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out. DIANA KRALL When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus ... 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My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also... 
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and ... 
As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles. 
Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They're my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: h... 
In New York, my dad raised me to listen to everything like hip-hop, rock and country music. When I m... 
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I real... 
I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to... 
As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe. 
To me, she was as good a singer as Aretha Franklin in her own way, and completely timeless. 
I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want... 
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone... 
My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne W... 
I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big. 
Listening well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. 
I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice wh... 
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. 
I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish... 
When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the rad... 
I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody i... 
One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be su... 
I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced. 
Being around people like Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack. . . had a... 
Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great. 
One of my biggest inspirations was Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.' 
My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music. 
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. 
I listen to everything - from Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette all the way down to rap like Sca... 
I really like listening to music in my car. 
When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the R... 
That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to a... 
I want people to focus on listening, not the image. And I want to play to everyone: rednecks, dubste... 
As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha... 
I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually. 
I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything i... 
For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha... 
I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I... 
I think fame comes from actually doing something big with your career. 
I'm happy with the man I'm becoming. 
Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven... 
There's cleanliness to how I eat now. I'm much more in tune with my body, so now that I'... 
Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of abilit... 
Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or try...