High school Quote by Aziz Ansari

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

— Steve Earle

My biggest influences when I was a kid - I listened to a lot of top 40 radio, so whatever the big artists were,…

— Marc Martel

I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

— Gary Sinise

As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get…

— Judd Apatow

My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. It was my first record…

— Jill Scott

When I was in high school in the '50s, all pop music - Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard - was aimed at teenagers. I…

— Robert Hilburn

When I started reaching teenage years, I listened to everything that was on the radio like everyone else did, which was Chuck Berry, Beach…

— Ronnie Montrose

There's so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was 'Help!' by the Beatles and from…

— Finn Wolfhard

My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but…

— Corey Taylor

The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.

— Finneas

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened…

— Michael Buble

A lot of music influences me in other ways than this, but I've always taken a lot of influence from Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean,…

— Rex Orange County