All Quotes

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.
‐‐ Jason Aldean

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.
‐‐ Carrie Underwood

I grew up listening to everything. I was in rock n' roll bands and punk bands, and I loved bluegrass and country music, too. Then, when I moved to Nashville, I put out a very traditional country record because that's just what you do. I had a bunch of very traditional country songs. Next thing you know, you're a country singer.
‐‐ Sturgill Simpson

I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.
‐‐ Gustavo Santaolalla

I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.
‐‐ Brett Eldredge

I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.
‐‐ Katy Perry

I grew up listening to hipster jazz and classical records... we went and watched ballet and orchestras - lots of cool stuff. Which I'm really grateful for - it's pretty nice being introduced to that when you're little.
‐‐ Courtney Barnett

I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very elitist with music. Love is universal; a great melody is universal; it goes around the world; it's not just American. A great song can touch the world.
‐‐ Diane Warren

I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.
‐‐ Caroline Shaw

I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap; I was 11, 12, and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.
‐‐ Ezra Koenig

I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of weird jazz record, but I don't know... It's on my list of things to do. I don't want to have to then go promote it.
‐‐ Kim Gordon

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.
‐‐ Tammin Sursok

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
‐‐ L'Wren Scott

I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.
‐‐ Dale T. Mortensen

I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.
‐‐ Gabrielle Aplin

I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.
‐‐ Courtney Barnett

I grew up listening to old soul.
‐‐ Erykah Badu

I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.
‐‐ Ryan Lochte

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.
‐‐ Jane Wiedlin

I grew up listening to pop music with my dad in the car, and we'd just listen to Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Earth Wind & Fire, KC and the Sunshine Band - all that good stuff. So to see it snaking its way back around again is really exciting, and I love listening to the radio.
‐‐ Megan Nicole

I grew up listening to popular music. My father was a Peruvian folk singer. He played the guitar at home. He sang songs with a waltzing rhythm, yet you can still hear the Spanish influences. I accompanied him to his performances.
‐‐ Juan Diego Florez

I grew up listening to Puerto Rican music like everybody else. But when I listened to Charlie Parker for the first time, I said, 'How does this guy play so fast?'
‐‐ Miguel Zenon

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.
‐‐ Carrie Underwood

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.
‐‐ Chino Moreno

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
‐‐ Ben Harper

I grew up listening to Switchfoot. I love Switchfoot; they're a great band. John Foreman is awesome. I really dig mainstream pop music, but I also have a heart for jazz and rock. Oh! Coldplay! I cannot miss Coldplay! I think 'Fix You' is one of the most brilliantly written songs ever. It's, like, my favorite song of all time.
‐‐ Shane Harper

I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of music that came to us either at the flea market or in our living rooms or on the 'Ed Sullivan' show - all these places we were influenced by.
‐‐ Sandra Cisneros

I grew up listening to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and every record those bands put out was very unique in its own right. I have that mentality. too: if a song sounds like something I've already done, then I'll throw it out, because I want each record to be a progression.
‐‐ Kellin Quinn

I grew up listening to the Light Crust Doughboys on WBAP.
‐‐ Johnny Gimble

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.
‐‐ Bruno Mars

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.
‐‐ Sachin Tendulkar

I grew up looking at National Geographic. I always wondered who was taking the photos and how.
‐‐ Jimmy Chin

I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes.
‐‐ Diane Kruger

I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard 'Baby One More Time' on the radio and I thought 'What is this?' I was eight and it changed my life.
‐‐ Sara Paxton

I grew up loving David Letterman and Pee-wee Herman, but as far as live performance comedy, all I knew were the Jerry Seinfeld-type comedians of the world, and that's what I thought live performance comedy was all about.
‐‐ Scott Aukerman

I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-school R&B. It's just music that moves you and grooves you, and it was very important, I think, for music.
‐‐ Elle King

I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.
‐‐ D. J. Cotrona

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.
‐‐ Diane Lane

I grew up loving monsters. I'm just a total monster geek. When I was a kid, I had the Aurora monster models, and I would make them. I loved the Universal horror movies and the Hammer movies. I just had an affinity for them.
‐‐ John Logan

I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school - even glee club.
‐‐ Kelsea Ballerini

I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

I grew up loving TV so much. It was such an integral part of my youth, and I was completely an Emmy geek.
‐‐ Jon Cryer

I grew up loving Walter Payton. My dad used to always show us film of him.
‐‐ Shaun Alexander

I grew up loving women and without misogyny, rancour or prejudice, totally loved and loving. And no matter what has happened since, I don't think I have treated women in my life very badly.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

I grew up loving X-Men, Spider-Man and Batman.
‐‐ James Wan

I grew up loving X-Men, Spider-Man and Batman. Those are obviously the key big ones, but there's always something kind of cool about Aquaman still, the idea of creating a huge world that is on our planet.
‐‐ James Wan

I grew up making films and always thought that's what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Tim Minear

I grew up making music in my mum's basement, and I used to tell her I was going down there to work, and she'd say, 'That's not work. Go get a real job!' It took me signing a record deal to change her opinion!
‐‐ Mike Posner