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We're all individuals. Lee Raymond is Lee Raymond. He has his style. I am Rex Tillerson, and I h... REX TILLERSON
I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album ref... EMINEM There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.
DEIDRE HALL If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era...
FAT JOE
Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 196... TERRY RILEY
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like ... RAY ROMANO Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choi...
STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.
DWEEZIL ZAPPA
When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what... WALTER DEAN MYERS
I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been ... KATHLEEN EDWARDS In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites...
ELEANOR CATTON I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom ...
JEANETTE MACDONALD My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around m...
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that...
GRANT GUSTIN I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early ...
MIGUEL My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone...
LALAINE I was looking forward to the 2005 season when things fell apart. I ended up in a dispute with my sis...
CHAD REITZ 'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in e...
JORDIN SPARKS
I beheld before me an animated Corse. Her countenance was long and haggard; Her cheeks and lips were... MATTHEW LEWIS
My father, Raymond F. Yates, was a successful writer of technical nonfiction and such a life seemed ... BROCK YATES If I was a carpenter, and I was trying to maintain my father's musical legacy, then I guess it w...
STEPHEN MARLEY One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of ...
CHARLES IVES Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my ...
JOHN DICKERSON My father has been extremely supportive of my music. I would classify him as my hero. If it was not ...
J. LOREN WINCE I remember my first time in the Champions League. I was 18, and it was Arsenal against Milan at The ...
ALEXANDRE PATO 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 was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was... KIEFER SUTHERLAND
Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at tha... TERRY RILEY I've been playing music for a long time. I play my music to keep busy. I play my music to keep out o...
WESLEY WILLIS Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'...
DAMIAN MARLEY To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later ...
DAVID NEWMAN
Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen... JENNI RIVERA The bracelet says 'Fear Nothing.' It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me a...
JOSEPH J. LHOTA
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father ca... JHUMPA LAHIRI I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my fr...
NATALIA KILLS I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phone...
BLU CANTRELL
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first mar... PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON I don't live in this soul music bubble. I love Young Thug, Drake, Kendrick Lamar. I even heard t...
LEON BRIDGES It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca...
LIONEL RICHIE I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ...
BLAKE MICHAEL After I came out of surgery - I was in the hospital for five weeks - I found that I gravitated towar...
PAUL HORN
There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. ... BILLY IDOL I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In ma...
ERIC WHITACRE In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I w...
RAEKWON
My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful,... SNOOP DOGG Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different a...
LA'PORSHA RENAE When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainst...
LAUREN DAIGLE Reggae music is a music of integrity; reggae's consciousness was built on a message. My music sp...
STEPHEN MARLEY
My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a... WINONA RYDER
My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned so... A. R. RAHMAN
I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me g... JAMES TAYLOR
I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time... IDINA MENZEL
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadn... ERIC CLAPTON
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... J. D. SOUTHER My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
ELVIS STOJKO I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all cam...
LAURA BELL BUNDY Sad music, I always thought, is more beautiful than other music. But at the same time, I am in my pe...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My re...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' the week that it came out. My father was a huge 'Star Wa...
DONALD FAISON My father is openly gay. He really loved my mother, but their marriage fell apart. When they separat...
BEN CURTIS Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology s...
WYCLEF JEAN When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.&...
JOHN TESH
It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I... JARED LETO I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad ...
KIM DICKENS Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a ...
BRYAN GREENBERG I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place...
CHARLES MINGUS
SiriusXM has had my back ever since day one when I was making remixes in my dorm room at university,... KYGO
I'm just a product of my environment, and it comes out in the music. BIG BOI My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I...
ANTONIA THOMAS Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor...
SAM BARRY My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbill...
CHARLIE HADEN
A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I thin... STEVE WINWOOD I was listening to the radio and they were playing some music in my cell. I heard a voice through th...
ANDREA YATES
I started using Twitter a lot and realized I had a lot of fans. Then I saw that I can share my music... MALUMA I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and ...
STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN
Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart a... TEDDY THOMPSON
I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I go... WYNTON MARSALIS I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croa...
OTTESSA MOSHFEGH In 'The Sound of Music,' I was a von Trapp daughter in a white dress with a blue satin sash,...
HUGH GRANT
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or... TONY BENNETT
I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contain... VANILLA ICE I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single eve...
EDGAR WINTER
At this point in my life I am just about enjoying my free time and my downtime and that's what i... SANDRA LEE
My first single was based around the mishearing of the words 'make believe' - 'I thought... JENS LEKMAN My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pr...
CHARLIE WILSON
At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with ... CHRISTINE QUINN I like to dabble in different things, but music is my first love. It connects to me in a way my side...
EVE
I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am... CHARLI XCX
After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?' RAY ROMANO I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I we...
CARLENE CARTER I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I ...
TIM BLAKE NELSON I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deep...
JEANETTE MACDONALD
When I was 14, I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic,' but I then turn... BLAKE MCIVER EWING
'Marley and Me' was a book I was proud of and believed in, but I thought it would just have ... JOHN GROGAN
I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'... LAILA ALI I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could ...
RICHIE HAVENS Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons...
RACHEL PLATTEN
I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was goi... ROLAND JOFFE I was the music director at a dinner theater called the 'Pheasant Run Theater' in the suburb...
SEAN HAYES I did a lot of choral music in high school, and that was kind of my primary, stable outlet for music...
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