Avril Lavigne Quotes

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.

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It went on for too long. Yes, I had certain teachers that really inspired me, like Danny Barker, and John Longo. And I had no idea that I would have any impact on jazz.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up.

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.

I grew up with music definitely.

Growing up, I didn't have a chance to watch a lot of films. It wasn't until my teen years that I had to chance to see the classic films.

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

I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.

I mean, I grew up in a very musical family.

My dad was a musician, played on the road and played all of his life. And I grew up in a musical family. I heard it all. I mean, I got accustomed to listening to Roy Acuff and all the old guys. It was really cool for me growing up in a family like that.

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

I actually grew up listening to music as like - church music and stuff like that.

People compare me to the people I listen to, the people I'm influenced by, Andre 3000, Missy, Busta.

Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville.

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.

I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.

Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.

When I was a kid, I was really quiet.

I used to play in bands and my dad, he's a big Beatles fan, so I grew up on a lot of Beatles and you kind of find your own way in music.

In Cleveland, music was always a big part of my life. That's really where I cut my teeth.

I come from a home that had a lot of music played in general.

In my musically formative years, I grew up listening to Suzy Bogguss, Trisha Yearwood, Terri Clark.