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Related I started collecting vinyl since I was about 14. But prior to that, I was always interested in knowi... CILLA CALDERON When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body pres... SARAH DESSEN When Ray did I Can't Stop Loving You , that was probably the time when country music was heard by mo... WILLIE NELSON Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when I firs... AUSTIN CARLILE When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a ... NATHANIEL RATELIFF When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who... KYP MALONE When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth arou... LARS VON TRIER What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or w... NICK HORNBY When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a ... DAVE GROHL I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever... LESLEY GARRETT One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers... LAWRENCE WELK I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly ... CHARLES SOULE The first record I made when I was 17. Labels merged and plans didn't work out, but plans never ... ASHLEY MONROE Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making ... CHANTAL KREVIAZUK I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about ... J MASCIS I have to give Ibo (Cooper) his props, as a musician and the kind of musician who can lead a band or... ROGER LEWIS I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabi... MADI DIAZ When I was in my teens, Yehudi Menuhin, who was at work on his project 'The Music of Man,' i... DANIEL HOPE I don't feel a real need to specify the meaning of something. When I was little and I was introd... KYP MALONE I think I was raised on all types of music. Of course there was the American pop music. There was al... JOSE MATEO I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more int... ANTHONY BRAXTON I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm. GAVIN DEGRAW I've never had problems of consumption. I have never been in a situation where I was under the influ... ANDRé BOISCLAIR I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was ... ARIEL PINK I heard George Crumb?s ?Black Angels? and I knew that I had just heard the music that I was born to ... DAVID HARRINGTON Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would lis... ALAN MOORE Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, hi... DHANUSH Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was s... J. K. SIMMONS I have always been involved with both music and food. Music was first, and I kind of had to set that... EMERIL LAGASSE How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answ... JOHN ABBOTT 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the an... JOHN ABBOTT How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the ans... JOHN ABBOTT 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the an... JOHN ABBOTT Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first... MARTIN FREEMAN Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life ... NINA SIMONE At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat ... ERIC CLAPTON I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my... NICOLAS CAGE A word or music that flows from the soul magically touches the heart of one and all. ANUJ SOMANY This is music I've known since I first started to play the guitar. Ray's music was one of my inspira... JOHN SCOFIELD I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer. ELLIOTT YAMIN From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone ... JIMMY PAGE When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and ... NINA SIMONE I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from. AGNES OBEL I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I wa... DAVID NEWMAN I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the charact... JEFF VANDERMEER The music began and he started singing and gyrating, so much that the flatbed and truck were bouncin... EVELYN RODRIGUEZ I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone ... DWIGHT YOAKAM I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and rea... BRANTLEY GILBERT When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying ... WALLACE SHAWN When I was a boy, the only thing which captivated me as much as music was the night sky. DANIEL HOPE And I understood why he didn’t need friends or to be accepted at our shitty racist high school, be... MATTHEW QUICK I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife. LIZ PHAIR I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. Whe... YUNA The music industry is trying all kinds of new things. But I've never had anyone request swing music ... JEFF MCCORMICK I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, th... LANDON LIBOIRON Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to Californ... MAYA ANGELOU I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never ... KASKADE When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet. MICKEY HART I'm really indebted to Johnny. He was my first musical hero. Were it not for him, things would have ... EDGAR WINTER God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children... NICHOLAS SPARKS What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching vio... NICK HORNBY 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; an... JOHN ABBOTT When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way,... EDGAR MEYER When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to scho... LARRY BIRD This was the first time I had heard anything about Wilson's wife. Rove never once indicated to me th... MATT COOPER I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty... NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN I liked all music when I was a kid: blues, rock 'n' roll, country and reggae. I don't think I can pl... GEORGE THOROGOOD I was so happy when I heard Al was coming to NBC. These last four years have been as enjoyable as an... JOHN MADDEN My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to gr... ANGEL OLSEN When I was a young teenager, it was all about The Clash for me and that sort of English punk stuff. ... GREG KURSTIN I was listening to the radio and they were playing some music in my cell. I heard a voice through th... ANDREA YATES I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this i... ARNOLD SCHOENBERG It was the most exciting music I'd ever heard, ... And 'Company' was the first album -- as in old-fa... LONNY PRICE My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13. QUESTLOVE I was always a visual artist my whole life, and I came to music really late - when I was 21 or 22 wa... TYCHO I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH When I was first going out to funky events, it was a lovely kind of music to dance to - it had such ... KYLA REID When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love tha... VILLE VALO We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I k... IAN AXEL I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My re... DWEEZIL ZAPPA It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be intro... ERIC CLAPTON So as long as I can do the music or create, I'll feel fine. DAVE NAVARRO Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If ... LATA MANGESHKAR [The first time Karpinski got any clarification about the photographs was January 23, 2004. The crim... JANIS KARPINSKI Everything that I believe he wrote, even about my daughter ... was not actual, the way the accident ... MARIANNE SANDERS I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether th... ARNOLD SCHOENBERG I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I beg... GYORGY LIGETI I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the &... JACK WAGNER Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a strick... J.K. ROWLING All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song LOUIS ARMSTRONG My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could ca... ABIGAIL WASHBURN As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain. DAN O'BRIEN In addition to my (counseling) practice, I've had a lengthy career in music. Years ago, I sang count... LINDA PALERMO My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had p... DICKEY BETTS As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I ... HOOMAN MAJD I've heard the stories. Like, Eric Clapton said he wanted to burn his guitar when he heard Jimi ... NEIL PEART I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything e... ELTON JOHN I never thought I was the most beautiful model out there or the most sexy woman, but I was a hard wo... CAROL ALT I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the haird... ADAM RICKITT
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AMANDA WALKER I have lunch with him pretty much every day. There are not many people that wanted it as bad. AMANDA WALDENMAIER It was quiet; people were crying everywhere. A lot of people just stayed to themselves. AMANDA WALDENMAIER Seeing everyone else around me looking like someone killed their dog, I tried to be my own self and ... AMANDA WALDENMAIER The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women's freedoms in southern S... AMANDA LINDHOUT My faith in human decency was sorely tested at times during my captivity; however, after my release,... AMANDA LINDHOUT After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be hom... AMANDA LINDHOUT I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more.... AMANDA PLUMMER It's not fair. It's not fair that he lets his rage take over, that he lets it rule him. I don't know... AMANDA GRACE But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave a... AMANDA GRACE But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten. AMANDA STEVENS A light rain touches my cheek like an angel's butterfly kisses. AMANDA MOSHER It's hard. Things were open for me tonight, but obviously we didn't win. It's nothing great. AMANDA BROWN They ran the play well. Props for them making it, but we should have been more prepared for that. AMANDA BROWN It's just really dry out there right now. AMANDA BROWN If you jump off the furniture, you're going into a time-out in your room. You're gonna crack your he... AMANDA BROWN This is really the most we can do from where we are. All of us that came here today felt like we sho... AMANDA BROWN I was real proud of how the girls came out. We'd had a couple of matches where we came out kind of f... AMANDA BROWN It's a time of great uncertainty, but we are focused on doing great journalism for ourselves because... AMANDA BENNETT We're running this in order to give people a perspective of what the controversy's about, not to tit... AMANDA BENNETT We're running this in order to give people a perspective of what the controversy's about, not to tit... AMANDA BENNETT I think this is really an opportunity to build some bridges. AMANDA BENNETT Neither I nor the newspaper meant any disrespect to their religion or their prophet [by running the ... AMANDA BENNETT This is the kind of work that newspapers are in business to do. We're running this in order to give ... AMANDA BENNETT This is the kind of work that newspapers are in business to do. AMANDA BENNETT You run it because there's a news reason to run it. The controversy does not appear to have died dow... AMANDA BENNETT [What is Amanda Beard doing in school, anyway? At her bewildering, Van Wildering academic pace, you ... AMANDA BEARD Strong biceps and triceps help me slice through the water's resistance and swim more efficiently, AMANDA BEARD I worked there for a year, ... I'd taken the year off from school and was doing double-session worko... AMANDA BEARD I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I'll probably be able to attend only half t... AMANDA BEARD What are you doing now? ... Just going to school and swimming? AMANDA BEARD Last week I was one minute late, ... and when I got to class, the professor had locked the door. She... AMANDA BEARD Let's go to the back, AMANDA BEARD It feels absolutely amazing AMANDA BEARD