Tinie Tempah Quotes

I have a very wide spectrum of stuff that I grew up listening to.

It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop.

My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also old R&B and Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin. But, you know, I had rock phases and liked more modern R&B acts. I've always listened to all kinds of music, and I like all kinds of music.

I grew up listening to every style of music you can imagine, and I have a love for all of it.

I really truly love all styles of music. A lot of people say that, but the first station they turn to when they get in the car is a rock station. I don't always do that. I really enjoy everything. But, of course, I'm a rock shred guitar player first.

Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

I have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music.

My kids listen to everything because I listen to everything, so it's not far-fetched to hear them playing Metallica and then playing A Tribe Called Quest or N.W.A.

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

I listen to all kinds of music. The Calling, Blink 182, Bruce Springsteen, I mean, it's everything.

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

I grew up with a wide range of music.

I genuinely love Oasis, and I also genuinely love Beyonce. My body gets the same pleasure. If you like different types of music, it's OK to say it.

I listen to everything. I sing country music, but I listen to different stuff.

I like all types of music. Even though rap music is 80 percent of what I listen to, it's not the only thing I listen to.

I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.

When I came home my parents were listening to Pakistani Qawwali music, like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, they're listening to music from Mali, like Ali Farka Toure, they're listening to Brazilian songwriters, like Gilberto Gil, to opera, to Neil Young even, things you don't hear as a kid in Caracas. I love all the music they turned me onto.

I've never been one of those people who say, 'Oh, well, if you play this kind of music, you can only like these kinds of bands.'

My family is still in Los Angeles. We listened to all sorts of music: Mexican music, oldies, soul, disco and rock & roll. I was surrounded by music.

I was exposed to jazz and blues and gospel and country music and rock, and I was the only kid I knew who knew about that stuff.