I grew up listening to old soul

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 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 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 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 like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was…

— Rebecca Ferguson

When that much time goes by, you're really listening to your old music differently. At the time it's written, it was the beginning of…

— Chris Cornell

I still love listening to the old stuff - Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, you know. I stick to the old school stuff, but I…

— Evan Ross

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

— Mickie James

I grew up listening to all types of music.

— Sheck Wes

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

— Annaleigh Ashford

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

— Ben Harper

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

— Dave Navarro

I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

— Courtney Barnett

Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up listening to…

— Avril Lavigne