Alan Vega Quotes

Growing up, I didn't really like folk music - I wasn't a fan of Bob Dylan. I grew up mostly listening to rap and hip-hop; it was this new form of music.

Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had back in the Seventies. But I've come around. Ballads have become something of an acquired taste.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

It would be pretty awesome to hear Eminem singing 'I'm a Good Girl'. Haha! Love Eminem!

I grew up listening pretty much just to pop music. But the older I've gotten, the more varied my musical tastes have become.

As I've gotten older, as I've gotten familiar with all different types of music, stuff that I didn't like when I was younger I actually kind of like now.

The first rap album I bought was Eminem's The Slim Shady LP so I wasn't even based on West Coast rap like that.

I'm huge into '90s rap. It's my jam.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.'

My come-out record, '10 Day,' was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out 'he's good' or 'he's not good.' 'Acid Rap' is the comeback tape, and it asks way bigger and better questions than, 'Is he good at rapping?'

You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

If some people don't like funk music then it's just the wrong time for them. They will get it. It's addictive.

Then I met people at school who were into Erykah Badu and Snoop Dogg. I like heaps of different music, but that was a real pivotal time in terms of finding my way.

Jay-Z, for a lot of reasons, will always be my favorite. But actually, in terms of what I listen to, it bends towards hip-hop, but I like everything. The only thing I don't really love is country, but everything else I'm a huge fan of.

I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn't have embraced that. I wouldn't have been able to embrace me.

My dad raised me on metal, but my first serious love was hip-hop.

My mum and dad used to listen to a lot of R&B and soul, so this was the way I grew up. Hip-hop, of course. But then as I grew older, I started listening to everything.