I grew up listening to bachata, to some of the greats of…

The beats change, I mean you got a lot of artists out there advancing new sound, new technology, new beats everything sounding very futuristic,…

— Kool Keith

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my…

— Dale T. Mortensen

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

— Ben Harper

I grew up listening to Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, and Angela Lansbury, so I grew up wanting to sound like Patti and Bernadette. What…

— Susan Egan

Once upon a time, I loved Carole King. I grew up listening to her.

— Brett Cooper

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 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 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 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 all music, not just country.

— Mickie James