I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
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LANGHORNE SLIM I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs. HOZIER I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music. CAROLINE SHAW I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at t... MANDY PATINKIN Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choi... STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's th... COCO LEE My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. MARK KNOPFLER My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues MARK KNOPFLER From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing u... KATHLEEN BATTLE This machine kills fascists. WOODY GUTHRIE To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music. MALLORY JANSEN I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. RODNEY ATKINS Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor... SAM BARRY I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae. ANNE LAMOTT He took his traditional music that he grew up with and mountain music and elevated it up to a whole ... DOUG TRANTHAM I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being ... ROGER MCGUINN My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma... SKYLAR GREY I grew up listening to popular music. My father was a Peruvian folk singer. He played the guitar at ... JUAN DIEGO FLOREZ I grew up with the British-Chicago crossover of house music with a lot of pianos and very heavy bass... 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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash.... ADAM HICKS When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and fo... IAN ANDERSON My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ... MADI DIAZ I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. JOHN LYDON I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just... ETTA JAMES My real friends are definitely the people I grew up with - the people who don't care about my mu... CHARLI XCX Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids. DICK SMOTHERS 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 grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff. TAMMIN SURSOK I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the ... JACKIE DESHANNON All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song LOUIS ARMSTRONG They want to be with the music they grew up with. They also want to be with the community they grew ... JOE LEVY Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every gir... LAURA OSNES Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own... ARLO GUTHRIE Folk music is a bunch of fat people. BOB DYLAN A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity,... STONE GOSSARD I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have... ALEXANDRA SHIPP I think I'm part of the last generation of songwriters that are really influenced by where they grew... GREG BROWN I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory. LANCE REDDICK You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest... SONNY TERRY I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, ... HOZIER I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk an... BELA FLECK Jazz is the folk music of the machine age PAUL WHITEMAN Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. PAUL WHITEMAN I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wan... JOHN TESH I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow. BOB DYLAN The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age. COMPAY SEGUNDO The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending reall... TREY ANASTASIO You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest mus... SONNY TERRY I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep. KIM BASINGER I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don... BOBBIE ANN MASON I grew up with The Beatles, Bob Marley and Talking Heads. I like the melody-with-rhythm aspect of mu... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the ... DARYL HALL It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca... LIONEL RICHIE Survey results found that people were listening to types of music they weren't interested in before.... MARK KOTKIN What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes ou... BONO 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 grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of th... BRYAN WHITE I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, th... LANDON LIBOIRON Jane, the family and the doctors keep me going. CHARLES MUSIC We're trying to stay ahead of the ball game. We feel we will qualify for grants and loans that are p... CHARLES MUSIC As we grow, we have to do a better job of treating the waste. CHARLES MUSIC My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you li... LUKE BRYAN I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confu... SOPHIE HAWLEY-WELD I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's pr... JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Missi... ROBERT PLANT Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternativ... 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