Age Quote by Eddie Vedder

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our…

— Aretha Franklin

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers,…

— Chuck Mangione

Most records, you build from the drums and bass up. This one, we started with the vocals in Nashville and recorded them live with…

— Andrew Bird

I was singing from the time I was 6 years old - at banquets and school shows back in Oklahoma.

— Anita Bryant

I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 - all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical…

— Deke Richards

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House…

— Lyle Lovett

I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing the music…

— Diana Ross

My brothers and sisters all sang, too, and they all have good voices.

— Charley Pride

All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like…

— John Fogerty

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were…

— Johnny Winter

Me and my three younger siblings, we sang together in grandma's church, and I was in the Chicago Children's Choir in high school, but…

— Jamila Woods

After I started singing, I'd go to my dad's records I grew up with in his house listening to: Gordon Lightfoot, John Denver, the…

— Jeff Gutt