Elliott Carter Quotes

I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me stack 45s, stack about ten of them, and when one would finish, the next record would drop. It was like I was DJ'ing for the house, picking out certain songs and so this song would go after that song.

I remember the first vinyl I bought: 'Purple Rain,' my favorite Prince album, ever.

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

I remember when I was a kid, every time the Beatles were on the radio, my dad would say he'd give me a dollar if I could tell him what band it was. So by the time I was about nine, I knew to just say 'The Beatles,' and I'd get a dollar out of it.

The first picture of me that I know of was me in the crib wearing a pair of cowboy boots.

When I was a teenager, my mom got me a really nice baritone ukulele.

Music was kind of a precious commodity growing up.

It seems like I've always been singing, at least since I was 5.

I think the first music I ever heard was Abba. I took my mother's cassette recorder and went into the bushes to listen to Abba when I was four or five-years-old.

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

The earliest music I remember hearing is Al Green's 'Let's Stay Together.' That was when my momma and my daddy were together, before they went their separate ways.

I was born in Manly Hospital, I pretty much grew up in my grandmother's house until my parents bought their own home.

My first memory of guitar was seeing my father play one.

I was probably five when I first picked up a camera. My mom had an Olympus OM-10 that she carried around to document our family photos. And I just always loved it.

My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.

It feels like I've been singing since I was born, and I have so many great memories with my family and friends centred around music.

I grew up listening to country music with my dad on the way to school.

There's always been music in my house growing up. In the kitchen, there's a speaker, and we'd always have my mum's iPod in it - she never makes food without listening to music. And I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' with my dad.

When I was a kid I was always listening and singing along to Disney compilation CDs.

I remember, after getting my very first CD player for a birthday, I immediately purchased the soundtrack to the movie 'Grease.'

I still play my old vinyl LPs - I like the scratches - and I miss browsing in record shops, because they held great nostalgia for me.