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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of ye... JACKSON BROWNE 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 I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't kn...
FRANK OZ I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
LAURA BELL BUNDY Georgie: I feel stupid.
Andrew: What are you talking about, you feel stupid? You just wal...
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My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in a... EMMA WATSON
Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music. CHANCE THE RAPPER
When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country musi... DIERKS BENTLEY
What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or w... NICK HORNBY
My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you li... LUKE BRYAN
[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. T... ELVIS COSTELLO
With consolidation you have fewer and fewer voices, ... I always thought that the strength of radio ... BOB EDWARDS
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwi... BOB GELDOF
When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the rad... MIKE DIRNT I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid....
CARLENE CARTER
If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath a... CHRIS CORNELL
When was the last time you bought an American-made radio or television? If you're Gen X or young... SETH SHOSTAK
I was a little kid, 10 or 12, ... I remember exactly ... transistor radios had just happened. When t... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body pres... SARAH DESSEN When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do ...
SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT
American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid. DAN AYKROYD I'm so excited about joining Radio 1, ... When I was a kid I did the classic thing of taping shows o...
FEARNE COTTON I listened to George Carlin when I was a kid and knew every word of his routines.
SEAN HAYES
Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they we... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent product...
GEORGIE FAME My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock ...
GEORGIE FAME Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.
GEORGIE FAME I had never seen anything like it. It was dark, it was full of American GI's and it was kind of thre...
GEORGIE FAME If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.
GEORGIE FAME We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later w...
GEORGIE FAME You make music to change the radio, not make music for the radio.
NAYVADIUS CASH
We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid. LES CLAYPOOL Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there ...
BOZ SCAGGS There were some weekends when you had the big new film of the weekend, when you thought you were goi...
JEFF BLAKE When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then ...
DMITRY MEDVEDEV I was listening to the radio and they were playing some music in my cell. I heard a voice through th...
ANDREA YATES Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
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HARRY YOU As a youth, I listened to Mr. Godfrey on the radio and remember seeing him on TV.
DANNY TREANOR
You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne. CARLY SIMON
(...) Since I was a kid.""Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'"
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NED VIZZINI I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all cam...
LAURA BELL BUNDY When I got to Paris, it was a different world. French radio-another universe from U.S. radio. I foun...
MADELEINE PEYROUX
If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell t... JULIA GREGSON When I was a kid, I was more interested in beating up boys on the playground than practicing music.
ELLEN HOLLMAN I listened to the first quarter-and-a-half on the radio. I was screaming at the radio, so I figured ...
KEITH STOKES
If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago. GRAHAM NASH
I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened ... GUGU MBATHA-RAW
I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to belie... LISA KLEYPAS
I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was a curious kid who wanted to be on the radio. LARRY KING I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the m...
RANDY JOHNSON
All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that w...
STAN GETZ
The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be... NIKKI SIXX I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to ...
LEE ANN WOMACK
If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to count... BUCK OWENS I've always been a fan of Johnny Cash. I grew up in the country picking cotton. ... All we had was a...
GARY LOPEZ
Country music has been here forever, but for years a lot of people who listened to country music wer... LORETTA LYNN Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel tru...
IRIS DEMENT But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and...
SAM DONALDSON [But he enjoyed his first afternoon in the Swamp, anyway.] I was actually chewing some kid out when ...
URBAN MEYER
Love, when it came and knocked on my door, was going to be enough.And that unknown autho...
V.C. ANDREWS In some Latin American countries, particularly in Mexico, you use radio for everything. You don't ha...
JESUS LOZANO
I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio. TINY TIM The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in my...
FRANKIE VALLI
I became inspired while I was listening to music on the radio. I felt the music in my head sounded b... BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ
When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there... HARVEY PEKAR
Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. ... KELLY ROWLAND When you have children, you hope they don't do the same things that we did when we were young...and ...
EDWARD G. BIESTER My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
QUESTLOVE My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could ca...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN
When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members o... SHASHI THAROOR
But when you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it we... SARAH DESSEN When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the in...
EDDIE TRUNK
I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always l... FETTY WAP When I was a kid I listened to a lot of punk music, but then along came Orange Juice, ... They reall...
NORMAN BLAKE I had always dreamed of starting off in pop radio and crossing into country. I used to sing country;...
CASSADEE POPE
When I went to Paris, I had a lot of ideas about it that were formed in the sort of ether that flows... ROSECRANS BALDWIN When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. T...
ANDREW RANNELLS
If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis,... TED TURNER When I was a kid, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, the answer was easy - the next...
ANGIE THOMAS Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that...
MARK HOPPUS When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, ...
IAN AXEL I love heavy music, but you see, I had fallen in love with a radio station in Vegas that played noth...
DAVE KEUNING I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, y...
VICTORIA PRATT When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a bre...
RANDY HOUSER The hardest part of fame and success is adapting to the people around you that's changing. It ch...
NAYVADIUS CASH
Every afternoon I listened to the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts and when I was four, I told my... DIXIE CARTER Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was c...
AL WALSER It was little dinks and dinks and dinks, and then take the [deep] shots when you have them, ... If y...
JAY DAVIS It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the ...
DARYL GATES Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life -...
TIM O'BRIEN I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of m...
SEAN PAUL
I putt like I did when I was a kid. When you're a kid, you're not scared of anything. ARNOLD PALMER
It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that ... 