Billie holiday Quote by Hugh Masekela

I'm just old enough to be able to say I got those very first Beatles records right as they were hitting America. My father…

— Lee Ranaldo

With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the…

— Jordin Sparks

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the…

— Kara DioGuardi

I was a really camp child! In the 70s, an age of all these amazing musical subcultures, I was sitting in my living room…

— Zoe Ball

My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.

— Jonny Lang

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

— Bryan Ferry

I'm a child of the 80s so I grew up listening to an awesome variety of music. John Cougar Mellencamp, Tom Petty. I've always…

— Ty Stone

Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

— Eddie Murphy

When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house,…

— Dan Hill

I was always used to singing whatever I liked. I never did pay much attention to what genre it was. Of course, we had…

— B. J. Thomas

When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in…

— Chuck Brown

I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs.

— Matisyahu