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Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

— Elliott Carter

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✓Similar Perspectives

I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio.

— Tiny Tim

I started using vinyl because I stole all my parents' records when I was 10. I didn't think about sound quality then, but I always loved how they sounded.

— Jamie xx

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

— Clint Eastwood

I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.

— Jonny Greenwood

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

— Harrison Birtwistle

My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs.

— Josephine de La Baume

My mother's records were formative for me, but when I became a teenager, I wanted to find songs that she wasn't hip to. She was so hip, though, that I had to go outside rock n' roll - so for about 10 years, I only listened to hip-hop, house and techno.

— Jenny Lewis

✗Opposing Perspectives

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.

— Christina Perri

My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.

— Gerard Way

The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically.

— Linda Ronstadt