Idina Menzel
Related When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me wan... MIGUEL ZENON I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop. ANITA DIAMENT JOHN LEGEND I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel.... LAURA BELL BUNDY When I was a young teenager, it was all about The Clash for me and that sort of English punk stuff. ... GREG KURSTIN I like jazz of course, but jazz is almost classic. I like some Italian pop music. When I was a teena... CECILIA BARTOLI I love playing all kinds of music, ... And the way to learn that music is with the musicians who inv... DAVID GRISMAN DAVID SANBORN I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from play... GARY BURTON DAVID SANBORN For me, writing music is kind of like a musical mirror where I write music and learn about myself in... DANIEL TRUEMAN GS I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with... TROYE SIVAN I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all cam... LAURA BELL BUNDY I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Her... JANE WIEDLIN ARLO GUTHRIE DAVID JOHANSEN At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened t... HERBIE HANCOCK RAY CHARLES THE WEEKND I started out playing traditional jazz, and I still do: I love standards, I love the music. But it m... ROBERT GLASPER I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a... JEFF HEALEY AARON NEVILLE I was around kids and kids' music. Maybe I started doing my own for selfish reasons. I wanted kids t... LAURIE BERKNER LOUIS ARMSTRONG I have produced all kinds of music because I love all kinds of music. GUSTAVO SANTAOLALLA HARVEY PEKAR I think 'Classical Crossover' is the perfect category for what we do. We're a string quartet with pe... MARK SUMMER Music is a really powerful way for me to catalyze all kinds of things. It's always been the cure... JUANES ERIC BURDON We saw that there was a gap between music for tiny kids ? Barney and all that ? and pop music that w... CLIFF CHENFELD JESSIE J BILL DIXON I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything. GYORGY LIGETI I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ing... ABIGAIL WASHBURN Ultimately, I think there's this umbrella term of jazz, and what's cool about not just what&... GRETCHEN PARLATO Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance... NADIA ALI Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or ano... BRIA SKONBERG BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The music industry is trying all kinds of new things. But I've never had anyone request swing music ... JEFF MCCORMICK CHARLI XCX Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was... BERRY GORDY I have always enjoyed different kinds of music. BILLY SHERWOOD My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also o... CHRIS STAPLETON I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed o... JAMES IHA SEAN COMBS I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music. TAJ MAHAL We play standard pop/rock music. I write most of the music, and bring it to the band so we can shape... BRAD CALLOW TARYN MANNING If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if fo... LANGHORNE SLIM I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was aca... CARLISLE FLOYD BRYAN WHITE MOBY T-PAIN The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '... GARY NUMAN I left Belle and Sebastian because I just wanted to explore different kinds of music -- to mill arou... ISOBEL CAMPBELL SAM SMITH JON SECADA CARL SANDBURG I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's i... RACHEL MINER When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I wen... K. FLAY BILL BRUFORD STEPHEN HAWKING IAN ANDERSON DAVID LEE ROTH That's folk music, swing, country blues, old time country, jazz. It's the roots of American music. DOMINIC SUCHYTA When I got to Paris, it was a different world. French radio-another universe from U.S. radio. I foun... MADELEINE PEYROUX Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no ki... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumen... CHADWICK BOSEMAN CARRIE BROWNSTEIN MOBY I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming ... CHARLIE HADEN When I write, I'm trying to put what I love into music. Everything through my life, the music that i... ANDREW YORK DAVID GILMOUR MIRANDA LAMBERT I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference... LATA MANGESHKAR EDDIE VAN HALEN CAROLINE SHAW I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicia... SONNY ROLLINS I felt like when I got with Kanye, and we discussed me being on G.O.O.D. Music, he just really took ... PUSHA T I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to ... LEE ANN WOMACK Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. MARC RIBOT I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ fre... FKA TWIGS I am so excited. It's like one of the greatest female roles ever written. I am totally humbled and f... SHOSHANA BEAN OLGA KURYLENKO I had a long, long time to make 'Rubberband,' and I originally thought that that record woul... CHARLIE WORSHAM I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. Tha... MADDIE ZIEGLER CONRAD SEWELL Music is the reason I started talking to people. When I started singing in bars and trains, I began ... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE The idea is very exciting and I'm really looking forward to playing this music as a trio. It's going... AIRTO MOREIRA I was lucky enough to grow up in a house where we listened to all kinds of music. We listened to Hai... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT DAVID SANBORN I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I e... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music. CAMILLA LACKBERG I try not to keep in mind what's going on currently in music. We all have a wide variety of music we... DAVID HAZEL I enjoy music -- lots of different types of music. So I wanted to go with some kind of musical frog. ANDREA COOPER Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, wh... GEDDY LEE I hear this production very much as a kind of chamber music work. And as it happens, Murakami ia a g... FRANK GALATI NINA SIMONE
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I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, ... 
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain te... 
Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own... 
I listen to a lot of different kinds of music. 
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so... 
Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rai... 
I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it... 
There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind. 
I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between... 
You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the b... 
I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres. 
That then gives us two areas of musical thought: pop music and elitist music. Isn't there room for a... 
I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all ... 
I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am... 
I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will refle... 
I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessin... 
I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like t... 
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied... 
I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same ti... 
Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music... 
For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I'v... 
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. Bu... 
I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that ... 
I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera. 
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and fo... 
There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they a... 
It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of communit... 
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have list... 
I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come toge... 
I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I w... 
There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot ... 
I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, ... 
I knew I wanted to do music at eight years of age. I listened to a lot of Motown growing up, and it ... 
I think the kind of chronology of the whole thing was that I was making records in the 70's and 80's... 
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play b... 
I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater. 
You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover th... 
I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of ...