Berlin Quote by Margaret Cho

It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting…

— Jim Jarmusch

I had a band called Infectious Grooves back in the Nineties. That music was really a mixture of styles, and we had some stuff…

— Robert Trujillo

I got really passionate about music with early Smiths and Joy Division. And New Order, Sonic Youth, Cramps...kind of right across the board, whatever…

— Jez Williams

I grew up in that era of Hendrix and Joplin and The Doors, and the Summer of Love and Haight-Ashbury, and even the Panthers.…

— Jerry Heller

The music I wanted to get into when I went to California, was to, uh, get into, uh, pop, mostly. And the big band…

— Carl Gardner

I just feel like that '90s era was pretty special from all aspects. Whether it was hip-hop, R&B, it was a lot of music…

— Bobby Wagner

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

The music I was always attracted to and the shows I was really into like, you know, those weekend Don Kirshner shows, "Midnight Special,"…

— Bobby Cannavale

I honed in on a great time, the Motown era, the '60s and '70s. That type of music has always been a staple in…

— Raphael Saadiq

I was a huge fan of this band called Sparks. It was a pretty good inauguration to music since their music is quite complex.…

— Johan Renck

For me, the highlight was meeting all the Motown acts, as I adore black soul music. I met Stevie Wonder who I love, and…

— Tony Blackburn

I got into Nirvana, and it was my sort of awakening into the idea that music could be like rough and crazy and local.…

— Phil Elverum