Alison Krauss Quotes

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

I was raised hearing music everywhere I went.

I come from a home that had a lot of music played in general.

My dad played music so I was around it at a really young age.

I come from a musical kind of family.

Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up.

My dad was a great guy; my mother was wonderful. I was very lucky to be around music from the time I woke up until I went to bed.

I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio.

Music was kind of a precious commodity growing up.

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

My father's music is all I remember from my childhood.

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

It's like there's the rest of the world, and then there's America. Part of the reason I would really love continue to making music over here because so much of American music has inspired me, whether it's Jeff Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen.

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!

I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.

I grew up with reggae music.

My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.