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I think my first musical memory is actually listening to Billie Holiday. I think I must have been, like, 3 or 4 years old.

— Jose James

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✓Similar Perspectives

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

— Andra Day

When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.

— Dan Hill

I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.

— Eddie McClintock

Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

— Christina Perri

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

— Barbra Streisand

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

— Bruce Springsteen

I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs.

— Conor Oberst

✗Opposing Perspectives

My earliest musical memory is of my older sister playing me Nirvana's 'Nevermind' on headphones in the back of the car on a road trip.

— Mike Posner

My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.

— Luke Bryan

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me.

— Jerry Leiber