Back Quote by Merry Clayton

When I was a kid I was definitely into Neil Young.

— Adam Granduciel

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

— Brian Wilson

I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

— Benmont Tench

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

— Bob Geldof

Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles,…

— Quincy Jones

When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me as such…

— Justin Broadrick

When the Eagles were starting out in the early '70s, it would have been hard to imagine anyone in the fledgling, country-accented rock group…

— Robert Hilburn

I started listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young when I was 8 or 9 years old - I had siblings…

— Eliot Sumner

I started off working with Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington at 9. Then on to working with Elvis and Tom Jones…

— Leslie Uggams

I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live' and those comedians - that's really even what got me into music was The Blues Brothers.

— John Popper

I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun.

— Mary Lou Jepsen