Around Quote by Rick Rubin

By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark…

— Michael Stipe

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

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to…

— Slash

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 in bands, like everyone else, when I was 16, 17; I was a little skater listening to Dead Kennedy's and Steel Pole…

— Bonobo

At 15, I started listening to hard rock and heavy metal, but I would say it was more hard rock because I liked Kiss,…

— Rick Rubin

I think most people start rock bands in their early twenties or teens, but I was almost thirty at the time when the band…

— Matt Berninger

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

When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and…

— Daniel Johns

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands…

— Oscar Isaac

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

— David Pajo

When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs…

— Eliot Paulina Sumner