Catherine Asaro Quotes

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.

Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.

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

I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive.

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'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay. I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.

My voice is a combination of how I grew up and what I was listening to growing up. I like a lot of different kinds of music and am always being inspired in different ways by different artists for different reasons.

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

I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.

I learned to love bluegrass, but my first love stayed hard country.

I think everyone has such varied taste in music.

I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.

I just always really loved music that was coincidentally from the States.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.