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" I didn’t grow up listening to him – my parents listened more to Neil Young and Joni Mitchell – but I lived in a flatshare for two years, and my flatmate loved Leonard Cohen. He would always play him when he got home from the studio or something. " - Sigrid

" I love music. I listen to a lot of it. " - Andy Murray

" Music is one of the only things that helps to reconnect neural pathways in our brain: listening, performing, singing, making a verbal attempt to sing along or hum. " - Melody Gardot

" I’ll never forget when I was, like, 17, and ‘Highway to Hell’ came on the radio, and I was like, ‘Dude, listen to that guy’s voice!’ " - Tommy Lee

" I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you’ve got to know how great he was. " - Dave Brubeck

" Iggy Pop is legendary – he is awesome – and I am a massive Bruce Springsteen fan. His song ‘Cautious Man’ is my favourite song. It’s really poignant, dark, and moody, like myself. " - Jimmy Barnes

" I’m from a small Irish family of 10, so there always was music in the house. Growing up, my older sisters had things like ‘South Pacific’ and opera on. " - Colm Wilkinson

" It’s nice knowing we’re putting the banjo, the fiddle, the steel, and the mandolin back out front. " - Maddie Marlow

" Currently I’m working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year. " - Adrian Belew

" I’ve never had a huge collection of records; I’ve never been a beat digga. I never been one of these guys who drives cross-country and knows some one-legged sailor who has a boat parked off some pier with a thousand Russian funk records that he stole from the Red Army in 1972. " - El-P