High school Quote by John Petrucci

When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.

— David Pajo

I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.

— Dimebag Darrell

There was so much good and different music back then and you'd just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff. I went…

— James Hetfield

I grew up with my dad's music, so my introduction to rock was Alice Cooper and Cinderella and Dio and Black Sabbath, so I…

— Lzzy Hale

Before I knew what hip-hop was, I listened to rock, metal, punk, reggae and old soul. I loved Black Sabbath.

— B-Real

As teenagers, we used to listen to entire Rush albums, entire Pink Floyd albums and shut down the lights and it was great.

— John Petrucci

I was in a lot of bands growing up.

— Jesse Andrews

I was in bands all through my youth. Things started out more acoustic and then piano ballads. Then R&B followed by sappy pop music…

— Lights

I was interested in music since I was 14 years old. What really got me started was the first Led Zeppelin album... absolutely.

— King Diamond

That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and…

— Chad Smith

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that…

— Dee Dee Ramone

Hard rock I got into around twelve or thirteen. My uncle introduced me to Scorpions, Great White and everything rock. From there, I expanded…

— Ivan Moody