Big Quote by Chris Redd

My dad is huge on music, so he always made tapes from his friends. That's how I got into music.

— Chris Harris, Jr

I made my first mix tape when I was 14.

— Wiz Khalifa

I made my first mix tape when I was 14. I used to play basketball and ride bikes, but I think I just latched…

— Wiz Khalifa

All I had was a CD with beats. I wrote to every beat on that CD, and when I got off punishment, I put…

— Dreezy

I couldn't afford to go to the record store to buy new tapes, so I'd tape everything off the radio. Just hit record when…

— Stephen Jackson

I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.

— Alexandra Patsavas

I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has…

— Janina Gavankar

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

— Duncan Sheik

Where I grew up, there was only one CD shop, and I didn't really like school, so we'd register, then bunk off, and we…

— Rag'n'Bone Man

I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it…

— Juliana Hatfield

So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out.

— Kieran Hebden

Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I…

— Adrian Younge