“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.” FirstsBigsEyeFatherSoundRecordsPlayerListeningGrewBandGrew UpEarsJazzCaughtBrownIllinoisTenorsColtraneBrownies Author:Meshell Ndegeocello
“I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.” NationsRecordsGrewGrew UpHighestTraditionTreasureVotersEngagementParticipationCivicsMinnesotaCivic Engagement Author:Al Franken
“I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.” WayMadeDifferentSeemsLeftCompanyRecordsGrewGrew UpAlbumsStoresRelateDifferent WaysMusic BusinessRecord Companies Author:Don McLean
“Basically, we've learned to delegate. We just grew tired of becoming too psychotic and straining to make the records ourselves.” RecordsGrewBecomingTiredPsychoticDelegates Author:Stevie Jackson
“The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes.” IfsDoeGovernmentDesirePurposeCompanyRecordsGrewOrdinaryProgramPhonesAddressesGapsNsaExaminingDatabasesQueries Author:Barack Obama
“My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.” PeopleSaidCountryYoungSongFatherMistakeRecordsPiecesCenturyGrewPaperGrew UpSacredNotesPianoRepeatsTunesHeritagePeasantsDon't ChangeChoirFiddleGospel Songs Author:Pete Seeger
“I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.” WellsKindRememberHouseSoundRecordsGrewGrew UpSingingAll KindsCleveland Author:Aretha Franklin
“Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up listening to music in church, and that was pretty much it. I didn't really grow up listening to AC/DC and all those bands.” FeelsFirstsGrowsChurchGrowing UpRecordsInfluenceListeningGrewBandGrew UpListening To Music Author:Avril Lavigne
“We grew up with all the Fat Wreck Records and all the Epitaph bands, that era. We mixed it up together. We were never purists of being just pop or just pop-punk. We always wanted to blend everything that we love.” WantedTogetherRecordsGrewBandGrew UpPopsFatsErasPunkWrecksEpitaph Author:Chuck Comeau
“There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.” PeopleNeedsFeelsArtistEvilCompanySupportRecordsGenerationsGrewGrew UpMusic IsBuyingRecord CompaniesYounger Generation Author:Bob Mould
“I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.” LittlesRecordsListeningGrewGrew UpTownsMexicoDianaLittle Towns Author:Salma Hayek
“I grew up in a very musical household. My brother had KISS and Van Halen records, but my parents loved country and show tunes, so I had all of those records when a kid. I pretty much knew exactly what I was going to do at a young age. I loved album covers, I loved listening to a record and staring at the art while listening to it. When I got older and discovered paining, drawing and PhotoShop, I was able to do both simultaneously; I enjoy making both.” ArtCountryShowsKidsAgeAbleYoungParentEnjoyRecordsBrotherListeningGrewKissingGrew UpMusicalAlbumsDrawingStaringMy BrotherTunesHouseholdVansYoung AgeVan HalenPhotoshopAlbum CoversShow Tunes Author:Piggy D.
“I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.” AgeReadingStuffRecordsSeeingGrewGrew UpAlbumsBuyingDigitalInsert Author:Jason Aldean
“A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.” IfsWantBigsAsksCreativityRecordsOur LivesStreetsGrewDrugGrew UpNotesStudiosSellingRapperSelling Drugs Author:Nicki Minaj
“I grew up working at a record store and listening to vinyl. Even if it's side A and B, there's always this continuity that really turned me on about music.” IfsSidesRecordsListeningGrewGrew UpStoresContinuityVinylRecord Stores Author:Amos Lee
“In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but a creature inhabited entirely by parasites, as a caterpillar is occupied by the grubs of the ichneumon fly. Gin, whisky, sloth, fear, guilt, tobacco, had made themselves my inquilines; alcohol sloshed about within, while tendrils of melon and vine grew out of ears and nostrils; my mind was a worn gramophone record, my true self was such a ruin as to seem non-existent, and all this had happened in the last three years.” YearsMindMadeSelfDreamSeemsLastsDiesThreeRecordsSawsHappenedGrewCreaturesEarsGuiltAlcoholRuinsFortyThree YearsWornTrue SelfTobaccoVinesSlothParasitesGinCaterpillarsWhiskyMelons Author:Cyril Connolly
“My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.” ChildrenRealDreamPassionBornRecordsListeningGrewGrew UpOperaDreams Came True Author:Andrea Bocelli
“Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit, but we kind of stumbled on writing "Joseph's Lullaby." The irony is when I originally wrote the song, it was called "Mary's Lullaby." I wrote it from Mary's standpoint and it was in a higher key, a real falsetto, and it just wasn't right. One day, the producer's wife said, "Well, it's kind of odd that you're singing from Mary's perspective, being the guy. Why don't you do Joseph?” WritingWellsKindLittlesSaidRealWholeGuySongBitsRecordsWifePerspectiveKeysGrewHigherOne DayLittle BitGrew UpSingingIntentionProducersIronyOddMaryStandpointLullabyFalsetto Author:Bart Millard
“My dad taught me to play the guitar. We grew up with country music. We had every Willie Nelson record (laughs). I was saved at a young age and had a great desire to follow God. I was really focused on that through my whole life, even as a kid and through high school.” CountryPlayWholeKidsAgeSchoolYoungDesireLaughingRecordsTaughtGrewDadGrew UpHigh SchoolGuitarMy DadFocusedSavedWhole LifeYoung AgeNelson Author:Chris Tomlin