Afghan Quote by Denis Leary

Growing up, as much as country was a big influence in my life, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and Led Zeppelin were such…

— Thomas Rhett

Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the '80s and '90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like Nirvana and…

— John Corabi

Growing up, I was so inspired by front men like Mick Jagger, Freddie Mercury, and Kurt Cobain - real showmen that put on 'a…

— Yungblud

Kurt Cobain is one of the reasons I started doing music because I just loved to watch them rock out.

— James Arthur

You never know that this is the moment when you're in the moment. When I was sixteen I moved to a smaller town in…

— Stuart Hamm

This was an era where I was going out every night seeing Sparks, Berlin, Duran Duran, and Split Enz. Amazing acts doing really weird…

— Margaret Cho

You know I got kicked out of high school and I used to go to Hendrix concerts. I used to go see Marvin Gaye…

— David Cassidy

For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into louder things like Bad Brains…

— Mike D

It had a huge impact on me, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ – and I was very proud when I found out that Kurt Cobain…

— Ozzy Osbourne

For me, I didn't want to be famous and there was a desire to be me and not 'that guy from the band' so…

— Curt Smith

I met Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin when I hung out with Michael Lang just before the Woodstock Festival. They were as charismatic in…

— Peter Max

When my father was, you know, a very big artist in the 1970s and then later up through the '80s. And then I began…

— John Carter Cash