80s Quote by Mayer Hawthorne

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

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

As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to…

— Kaskade

I'd heard a lot of Motown and Stax when I was a kid, but the more well-known end of it. On Jam tours, we…

— Paul Weller

I actually grew up on rock music; that's what was played around my house. I listened to Led Zepplin, AC/DC, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Nirvana,…

— Murda Beatz

I grew up listening to a lot of that stuff, Motown and Stooges. But also early rock-and-roll like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee…

— Alex Winston

I'm obsessed with the sound of today, but I was raised on the Motown sound.

— GRiZ

My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite…

— Ella Henderson

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

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in…

— Lou Reed

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 made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day and Offspring…

— Jane Wiedlin