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My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things.

— Robbie Robertson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Pauly D

My dad played music so I was around it at a really young age.

— Shawna Thompson

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

— Elvis Stojko

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

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

When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

— Taj Mahal

I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

— Gary Sinise

My parents listened to a lot of music when I was really little. They used to listen to people like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and I used to be really into that.

— Conor Maynard

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

— Tammin Sursok

As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.

— Kaskade