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An uncle I loved got me into Fred Astaire when I was young. We had a scratchy old album of the 'Top Hat' musical. I'd pretend I could tap-dance and my uncle would say: 'Go, Tara, go!'

While doing remixes, I get to know about a lot of musical notes that the legendary musicians have used earlier. Then I apply those learnings to my original compositions, so it helps.

When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.

When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.

I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.

I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

I can show my characteristics and musical colors both as a member of Bigbang and as a solo artist.

The musical style and sound of 'Love You to Death' is something I wanted to do from the moment I started working on this album. It's a very masculine track with dramatic lyrics.

One of my insecurities was my looks. I was short, cute and chubby, and Dad used to call me his 'little fat sausage.' But I always knew I had musical talent.

My own musical ambitions were born when I was five, watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV. When Elvis Presley burst on to the screen, singing 'Don't Be Cruel,' I felt my first sexual thrill, though I didn't know what it was at the time.

I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.

Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical musicians belong to this place. Kolkatans do not go by fashion, but by passion.

I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.

In the '60s, people had diverse tastes, which made the musical climate that much better and more interesting.

I was a disruptive student. I hated my teachers, especially my Spanish teacher. When I went to see the musical 'Matilda,' the horrible Miss Trunchbull brought back all sorts of horrible memories. I'd go into Spanish class, put on headphones, and sing at the top of my lungs until they threw me out.

When I was a kid, I never thought I would ever be able to make records and never really thought seriously about a musical career because a musical career was being Fabian or Frankie Avalon or something. It didn't make any sense. There wasn't any possibility to get into that world.

If there were 3,000 people in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the musical education would be so much better than this little elite thing.

The way it worked was my mom came from a musical family, and my dad didn't - he was a pathologist.

I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that's in my head.