Mohit Chauhan Quotes

My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.

I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.

I'm a proud mainstream musician, but having said that, I do firmly believe there's more to musical talent in India than just Bollywood.

I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.

Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle - my cousin had been in London the summer that skiffle was big.

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

I was raised on pop music.

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.

John Denver I listened to when I was in elementary school.

The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'

I got turned onto the 'Pat Garrett' soundtrack when I worked retail back in the day.

My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work.

Just as the cultures, lifestyle and food differ vastly from our own, music for the Tamil/Telugu audience is vastly different from that of Mollywood.

I listen to a lot of religion-based music, culturally rich music. Ethnic and world music. Music from Latin America has been influencing me in particular.

My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would play Otis Redding over and over again.

I didn't grow up with classical music. My father was a folk music singer.

You know, the funny thing was that I grew up listening to, like Whitney Houston and Cece Winans, and a lot of American singers.

I grew up listening to Hindi music, ghazals and all.

I like flipping Coldplay. And I like Jessie Ware. But I'm sure how we grew up was totally different.

I was about 14, and I got hooked on the music of the Stanley Brothers.

Not many people know, but Pahari songs are amazing.

When I was growing up, I was surrounded by people that were listening to a lot of pop music.