Deepika Padukone Quotes

When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

I love heavy music, but you see, I had fallen in love with a radio station in Vegas that played nothing but Eighties music. That had a real profound impact on me.

I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar Max Roach albums as well.

I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.

For me, a wake-up playlist completely depends on what mood I'm in. If I need to get into action pretty quick, it will be between Beyonce and Miles Davis. I'm a massive Beyonce fan, and all of her anthems will do it for me. And Miles Davis, because I grew up hearing his music because my dad played it a lot, so that will always be special to me.

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

My dad influenced my musical taste. I grew up listening to Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones and a bunch of rock music from the '60s. Now, instead of watching TV, I'll play a record from start to finish.

I have a huge appreciation for music in general, but my roots are country.

At a young age, I was introduced to Joni Mitchell by my mum. My dad was into progressive rock.

I didn't grow up with country music, but I appreciate the lyrics.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically.

My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.

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

I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.

The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played the piano. This was post-war Britain, and they played boogie woogie and blues, which was the underground music of the time.

They've been brought up on the best music. It's gonna be so good.