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In my mind, my music is kind of inseparable from my hometown and my life growing up. -- Drew Holcomb
I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial. -- Vera Farmiga
I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up. -- Grace Jones
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. -- Paul Simon
I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music. -- LL Cool J
Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up. -- Damien Rice
I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music. -- Kelly Osbourne
I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling. -- Billy Idol
I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up. -- Mark Morris
I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go. -- Chris Isaak
When I was growing up listening to music, it was 2004, when The Starting Line and Finch and The Used were kind of my favorite bands. -- Kellin Quinn
My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. -- Sara Zarr
Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer. -- Lionel Richie
From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how I approached classical music. I'm sure of it. -- Kathleen Battle
My grandfather was a massive influence in my music. Growing up, he would play a lot of old-school records to me. A lot of jazz and swing music, actually, growing up. -- Ella Henderson
Growing up, I didn't really like folk music - I wasn't a fan of Bob Dylan. I grew up mostly listening to rap and hip-hop; it was this new form of music. -- Max Casella
My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles. -- Sara Zarr
I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration. -- Jackie DeShannon
I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too. -- Lorrie Moore
When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn't know it in categories. It was the radio. -- Lionel Richie
I never listened to country music growing up. -- Deana Carter
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Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music. -- Jan Hammer
My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music. -- Randy Bachman
The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music. -- Amy Grant
Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music. -- Ezra Koenig
I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up. -- Rosanne Cash
Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home. -- Sean Mackin
I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music. -- Tod Machover
Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person. -- Raekwon
I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up. -- James Vincent McMorrow
Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music. -- Stephen Bruner
I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment. -- Q-Tip
When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing. -- Pattie Brooks
I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music -- Kelly Osbourne
I didn't know anything about fashion, growing up in Orange County. I just knew about it through music, how ska bands dressed. -- Gwen Stefani
We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had. -- John Legend
All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll? -- Ty Segall
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community. -- David Sanborn
When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music. -- Queen Latifah
For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape. -- Christina Aguilera
I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up. -- Colin Hanks
When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong. -- Matty Mullins
The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts. -- Perrey Reeves
I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall. -- M. Ward
Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard. -- Alex Winston
Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up. -- Petra Haden
It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive. -- Tinchy Stryder
I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to music for pleasure. -- Mike Stud
I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything. -- Mayer Hawthorne
It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different and a bit weird. -- Olly Murs
Music was a big thing for me growing up and Scorsese and Tarantino both use music brilliantly in movies. They're probably two of the best at using music. -- Ed Speleers
My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything. -- Clare Bowen
Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess. -- Ezra Koenig

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