Anoushka Shankar Quotes

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

Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part - is they teach their kids to tap dance first. Then after tap dance, you learn piano, and after piano, you get to pick between all the instruments that are out there.

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.

As a disciple of my father's, I was certain I wanted to include one of his own raga creations on 'Home', as they are so beautiful; whilst many of his creations are part of the general classical repertoire for all musicians, many more are only played by those of us who learned from him, and therefore need to be played.

I am fortunate that I was born in a family where music was already a part of life.

I come from a family of musicians.

Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of the time. You'd probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.

I want Bappa to be amongst the best music composers. My father was a great singer and I also did quite well and now my son would take forward the legacy, as music is in our blood.

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.

I come from a musical kind of family.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

Our parents were musicians.

That's where I get my whole music theory from, my pops and my grandfather.

My whole being sonically comes from my dad's understanding of music.

Music always lived with me, like a family tradition.

In Europe, I do see a lot of women who were fans years ago bring their daughters and sons to shows and that's how my music gets passed down, and I love that.

My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.

Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.