Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station

Whatever you immerse them in as infants will have an impact. I come from a family of music lovers, and from the time I was a baby--I was born in the early 60s--my dad constantly played pre British Invasion rock 'n' roll, doo-wop, R&B, blues, country, etc., while my mom was very on top of current pop, so she was following the Beach Boys, Beatles, Stones, Who, Dylan, etc. right from the start and I heard that stuff all the time, too. My older sister and an uncle were into popular music as well as more obscure stuff, psychedelic music, early hard rock/metal, etc., and my grandfather was heavily into classical, jazz and pre-rock pop. So I grew up listening to all of that stuff rather than kids music or anything like that.