I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and NWA and I never…

I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and N.W.A. and I never went out and shot nobody.

— Eminem

If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do.

— Luther Campbell

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

— Ben Harper

I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.

— Annaleigh Ashford

I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I…

— Kate Voegele

I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.

— Dave Navarro

I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my…

— Mark Wahlberg

I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in…

— Avicii

I come from both sides of the spectrum: I grew up listening to hip-hop and R&B then learned how to make a track by…

— Lotic

I grew up listening to Patsy Klein, Reba Mcentire and would study their voices. But once I became bored with that, I moved on…

— Hope Partlow

I grew up listening to all types of music.

— Sheck Wes

We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on…

— Quavo

I grew up listening to a lot of 2Pac and a lot of East Coast, West Coast rap; Bad Boy, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown,…

— Saweetie

I grew up listening to my mother's collection of Hank Williams, George Jones and Marty Robbins records.

— Keith Whitley

I grew up listening to all music, not just country.

— Mickie James