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I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.
ERIK HASSLE I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
HARLEY VIERA-NEWTON My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma...
SKYLAR GREY The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of...
ERIK HASSLE My mom was a singer in Chicago and still is a cabaret singer, and she was very theatrical. And my da...
HAYES MACARTHUR My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
ELVIS STOJKO![]()
My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King...
GLORIA ESTEFAN Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her so...
SARAH VAUGHAN I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.
ELLIOTT YAMIN![]()
When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing a...
NILE RODGERS The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as m...
BIG SEAN "You quiet my demons and bring peace to my soul" Written for Malcolm Neil Elliott
NATASHA DANIELE SVANE![]()
I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.
KIM BASINGER I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.
ERICH LEINSDORF![]()
My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and...
EMERIL LAGASSE From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, l...
LARA PULVER I don't live in this soul music bubble. I love Young Thug, Drake, Kendrick Lamar. I even heard t...
LEON BRIDGES He'll never be here for me to grow old with. He was my life. He was my love. He was my heart and sou...
ARMY SGT.![]()
I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young...
MARIO ANDRETTI Through him I could play the music I heard in my soul. I was the violin, he was the bow.
S. JAE-JONES Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop mu...
ALOE BLACC![]()
I've always been a very young person with a very old soul.
KEHLANI At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
BAZ LUHRMANN Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any ...
ALAN JACKSON In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.
JI-HAE PARK![]()
The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a ve...
DELTA GOODREM I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and ...
KATE BUSH![]()
The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer...
TRAVIS SCOTT Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music w...
PERCY SLEDGE My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very you...
AARON DIEHL![]()
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
GEORGE SAND![]()
My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age ...
MATTHEW MODINE My mom was a very dynamic woman. I wish I could do a quarter of what my mom was able to achieve.
BRIDGET IDTENSOHN![]()
I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.
GAVIN DEGRAW![]()
This is music I've known since I first started to play the guitar. Ray's music was one of my inspira...
JOHN SCOFIELD![]()
My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music...
RUBY ROSE My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I had a soul above buttons.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER")![]()
Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first tim...
LEA MICHELE![]()
On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and rem...
DANIEL BARENBOIM My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
CANDACE PARKER![]()
I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a...
AARON PAUL I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y...
CHARLIE EBERSOL I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for m...
FLUME![]()
Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of ...
TREY ANASTASIO![]()
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO![]()
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO![]()
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare ...
VICTOR HUGO![]()
My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.&#...
ALBERT BROOKS As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.
LATA MANGESHKAR My mother was a very sweet soul and a beautiful person, but she had a lot of fear.
JOHN GRANT I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I ...
T. J. PERKINS I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show w...
ANDY GRIFFITH![]()
The soul that feeds on books alone --/ I count that soul exceeding small / That lives alone by book ...
JOAQUIN MILLER Music was massive from an early age. My parents were huge music fans, especially soul, and they play...
BRONAGH GALLAGHER![]()
I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and ever...
ISAAC HAYES I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to m...
CHARLIE HADEN The one time I had a moment of clarity was when my mom told me my soul was dying. I remember just sc...
ANDREA PUMPER![]()
He was a very gentle soul and, I think, a very good doctor. And I'm probably being paid more to beco...
HUGH LAURIE![]()
When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about ...
SERJ TANKIAN Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul....
MAXWELL![]()
My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it...
MAYA ANGELOU![]()
Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an ...
SISSY SPACEK At a young age school came first. It was put in my head that school was first and swimming was secon...
EMILY PFERDEHIRT I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and ...
SABRINA CARPENTER I was having problems because [Augusta Chairman ] Cliff Roberts and [and former U. S. President ] Ge...
CARL JACKSON![]()
My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't r...
LORDE Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very ...
AHMET ERTEGUN![]()
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or...
TONY BENNETT 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![]()
My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young a...
NANCY ROMAN This was something he'd done a great deal of when he was very young, so young the memory was washed ...
HEIDI CULLINAN![]()
I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.
SUSIE BRIGHT Whenever i have too much on my mind, i just put my earphones in my ear and i listen to music.. Music...
OLASOT![]()
I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessin...
TARYN MANNING![]()
My mom's a children's television writer, so I was involved and around from a very young age....
ALYCIA DEBNAM-CAREY I actually did start performing at a young age and yes, I did do stand-up when I was 9. I did seem t...
JOSH CHARLES![]()
In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Wh...
LADY GAGA He came in young. He was very intelligent at that age; I don't think he was 21. He was a nice person...
EDWARD KING![]()
When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years ...
BEN BARNES![]()
No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates ...
ROWAN ATKINSON I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
KATEY SAGAL![]()
My body, my soul and my mind, simultaneously response to good music.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom cam...
MAUD WELZEN![]()
So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of...
NICK CANNON When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.
JEFF BRIDGES I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing...
RONALDINHO My dad played baseball and my uncle and pretty much everybody, so I was brought up early, at a young...
ERIC SOGARD He was definitely ahead of his age, way ahead of his age. He was a very driven young man at an early...
DAVE LUNDEY My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.
KATE UPTON My mom says I was born screaming.
ELLE KING I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.
BRADY CORBET Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myse...
FRANK BLACK![]()
I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
GROUCHO MARX![]()
I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me g...
JAMES TAYLOR Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.
CHRIS TOMLIN I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali...
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN![]()
If this could be repeated every day for a year, I would never budge from where I stood.
WENDY MASS When I was a teenager, I worked at the Gap for a summer folding shirts. That was pretty mindless and...
CONSTANCE WU My music is evidence of my soul's will to live.
CHARLES MINGUS
ERIK HASSLE I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
HARLEY VIERA-NEWTON My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma...
SKYLAR GREY The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of...
ERIK HASSLE My mom was a singer in Chicago and still is a cabaret singer, and she was very theatrical. And my da...
HAYES MACARTHUR My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
ELVIS STOJKO
My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King... GLORIA ESTEFAN Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her so...
SARAH VAUGHAN I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.
ELLIOTT YAMIN
When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing a... NILE RODGERS The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as m...
BIG SEAN "You quiet my demons and bring peace to my soul" Written for Malcolm Neil Elliott
NATASHA DANIELE SVANE
I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep. KIM BASINGER I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.
ERICH LEINSDORF
My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and... EMERIL LAGASSE From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, l...
LARA PULVER I don't live in this soul music bubble. I love Young Thug, Drake, Kendrick Lamar. I even heard t...
LEON BRIDGES He'll never be here for me to grow old with. He was my life. He was my love. He was my heart and sou...
ARMY SGT.
I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young... MARIO ANDRETTI Through him I could play the music I heard in my soul. I was the violin, he was the bow.
S. JAE-JONES Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop mu...
ALOE BLACC
I've always been a very young person with a very old soul. KEHLANI At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
BAZ LUHRMANN Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any ...
ALAN JACKSON In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.
JI-HAE PARK
The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a ve... DELTA GOODREM I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and ...
KATE BUSH
The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer... TRAVIS SCOTT Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music w...
PERCY SLEDGE My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very you...
AARON DIEHL
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. GEORGE SAND
My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age ... MATTHEW MODINE My mom was a very dynamic woman. I wish I could do a quarter of what my mom was able to achieve.
BRIDGET IDTENSOHN
I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm. GAVIN DEGRAW
This is music I've known since I first started to play the guitar. Ray's music was one of my inspira... JOHN SCOFIELD
My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music... RUBY ROSE My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I had a soul above buttons.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER")
Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first tim... LEA MICHELE
On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and rem... DANIEL BARENBOIM My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
CANDACE PARKER
I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a... AARON PAUL I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y...
CHARLIE EBERSOL I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for m...
FLUME
Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of ... TREY ANASTASIO
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak... VICTOR HUGO
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak... VICTOR HUGO
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare ... VICTOR HUGO
My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.&#... ALBERT BROOKS As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.
LATA MANGESHKAR My mother was a very sweet soul and a beautiful person, but she had a lot of fear.
JOHN GRANT I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I ...
T. J. PERKINS I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show w...
ANDY GRIFFITH
The soul that feeds on books alone --/ I count that soul exceeding small / That lives alone by book ... JOAQUIN MILLER Music was massive from an early age. My parents were huge music fans, especially soul, and they play...
BRONAGH GALLAGHER
I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and ever... ISAAC HAYES I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to m...
CHARLIE HADEN The one time I had a moment of clarity was when my mom told me my soul was dying. I remember just sc...
ANDREA PUMPER
He was a very gentle soul and, I think, a very good doctor. And I'm probably being paid more to beco... HUGH LAURIE
When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about ... SERJ TANKIAN Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul....
MAXWELL
My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it... MAYA ANGELOU
Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an ... SISSY SPACEK At a young age school came first. It was put in my head that school was first and swimming was secon...
EMILY PFERDEHIRT I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and ...
SABRINA CARPENTER I was having problems because [Augusta Chairman ] Cliff Roberts and [and former U. S. President ] Ge...
CARL JACKSON
My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't r... LORDE Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very ...
AHMET ERTEGUN
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or... TONY BENNETT 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
My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th... J. J. WATT I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young a...
NANCY ROMAN This was something he'd done a great deal of when he was very young, so young the memory was washed ...
HEIDI CULLINAN
I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom. SUSIE BRIGHT Whenever i have too much on my mind, i just put my earphones in my ear and i listen to music.. Music...
OLASOT
I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessin... TARYN MANNING
My mom's a children's television writer, so I was involved and around from a very young age.... ALYCIA DEBNAM-CAREY I actually did start performing at a young age and yes, I did do stand-up when I was 9. I did seem t...
JOSH CHARLES
In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Wh... LADY GAGA He came in young. He was very intelligent at that age; I don't think he was 21. He was a nice person...
EDWARD KING
When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years ... BEN BARNES
No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates ... ROWAN ATKINSON I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
KATEY SAGAL
My body, my soul and my mind, simultaneously response to good music. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom cam...
MAUD WELZEN
So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of... NICK CANNON When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.
JEFF BRIDGES I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing...
RONALDINHO My dad played baseball and my uncle and pretty much everybody, so I was brought up early, at a young...
ERIC SOGARD He was definitely ahead of his age, way ahead of his age. He was a very driven young man at an early...
DAVE LUNDEY My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.
KATE UPTON My mom says I was born screaming.
ELLE KING I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.
BRADY CORBET Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myse...
FRANK BLACK
I must confess, I was born at a very early age. GROUCHO MARX
I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me g... JAMES TAYLOR Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.
CHRIS TOMLIN I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali...
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN
If this could be repeated every day for a year, I would never budge from where I stood. WENDY MASS When I was a teenager, I worked at the Gap for a summer folding shirts. That was pretty mindless and...
CONSTANCE WU My music is evidence of my soul's will to live.
CHARLES MINGUS
Trust your landmark and run through the smoke. It's going to open up eventually. 
I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year ... 
The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them... 
Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I bet... 
I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among profess... 
The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefi... 
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. 
Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potent... 
What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler... 
If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy. 