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My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.

— Suzy Bogguss

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

— Joan Jett

I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.

— J. D. Souther

My mother and dad loved music, were very much into music.

— Jim Foglesong

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

— Len Cariou

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

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

— Tyler Hilton

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

— Travis Barker

I was a drummer in a group called Three Plus. We were performing at a club in New York, and my mother signed me up for tap classes. I fell in love from the door... so you can blame it on my mother.

— Savion Glover

✗Opposing Perspectives

My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.

— Jimmy Chamberlin

There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious.

— Gillian Jacobs