Harley Quinn Smith Quotes

I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.

My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.

At a young age, I was introduced to Joni Mitchell by my mum. My dad was into progressive rock.

It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!

My mother got me into music when I was a little kid. She used to play music, blast it, when she was cleaning the house, while I was crawling around. I just love loud music.

You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.

I have really dope parents, and they happen to both really love, love music - they're huge music fans.

It frustrated me at college that all the acts in the Top 10 were like The Moody Blues and Phil Collins. It was like why did we get stuck with the last generation's music, why can't we have our own?

My parents were always playing records: My mom was really into the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac, and my dad was more Billy Squire, Whitesnake, '80s hair metal. But I think there's that crucial point where you become an adolescent and you don't want to listen to your parents' music.

I like to take it back, cause I'm an old soul. Growing up, my brothers, I'd grow up hearing what they were playing, and that's how my taste has evolved.

My dad raised me on metal, but my first serious love was hip-hop.

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.

Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.

In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.

The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.

I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.