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The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I remember watching that video and forgetting it was from a woman's point of view, and forgetting it was a country song, and forgetting it was originally by Dolly Parton.

— Samuel Larsen

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

'Jolene' has been very popular all of these years, even overseas.

— Dolly Parton

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

— Ruben Blades

People have to remember this - I've literally been going at this music thing since my mother passed away.

— Tory Lanez

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

As a kid, on the cotton fields, I had this tune in my head. I hummed it and sang it. It was the same melody as 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' I could never, ever forget it.

— Percy Sledge

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

— Andra Day

When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

— Laura Bell Bundy

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

— Joni Mitchell

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam.

— Elle Varner