Wallace Shawn Quotes

My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.

I saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons.

Music was massive from an early age. My parents were huge music fans, especially soul, and they played records in our house all the time, and me and my brother and sister would dance and sing about the living room.

I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.

One of the things that was a blessing for me is my parents were music lovers. Neither of my parents played an instrument, but they were avid record buyers. And I grew up at every age listening to all kinds of music.

All my musical influences came from my mom, who did everything to music. She played it 24 hours a day, seven days a week in our house. So that's where my love for music came from.

My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would play Otis Redding over and over again.

That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.

Growing up, I didn't come from a musical family. Neither of my parents played an instrument, sang out loud, or listened to the radio with frequency. The record collection in the living room was only about 2 feet long - and that included 4 solid inches of Neil Diamond and Herb Alpert.

I had been exposed to classical music my whole life; even before I was born.

My father gave me one of those small, box-sized travel players when I was a kid and just a handful of records that he had. 'Zeppelin IV' was one. 'The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl,' which is just about the worst record ever - you can't hear anything, just screaming in the background. I think there was maybe, like, an Animals record.

My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work.

'Roxbury Drive' was the street I grew up on as a little kid, and it was the street that I first listened to records on, and where I actually really first fell in love with music.

If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning.

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.

Growing up in the projects, I've been around music all my life. Marvin Gaye, everything man.

I didn't grow up with classical music. My father was a folk music singer.

I have been exposed to different kinds of Marathi and Hindi music, classical music, and English songs since childhood.

When I was 5 years old, I got my first record. It was 'Flatt & Scruggs' Greatest Hits.' The second was 'The Fabulous Johnny Cash.'

I am very fortunate - I grew up with music.

I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.

I grew up with parents who really encouraged me to listen to as much music as I could.

I blame my parents for never introducing me to good music.

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.

I have no idea what was the first record I ever bought, but I think I asked my mom to buy me... um... a collection of Beethoven when I was a little girl because I became very addicted to his music. It might have been piano sonatas.