David Alaba Quotes

My dad was a professional musician; my mom played, too, but just for fun. All my siblings played. The house was full of music books, videos, albums. I guess it's not surprising that I ended up becoming a musician.

Music was a big part of my upbringing. My mum and my grandma are very passionate about music.

Our parents were musicians.

My father played music, so I was always around music, even from the time I was born. My father actually was the one that originally got me into music.

My mom was a singer, and my dad had been playing in bands with my mom's brother. My dad married my mom, and so I was sorta surrounded by music from the get-go. Born right into it.

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

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.

My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.

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

I was raised around music.

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

Both of my parents were musicians.

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.

I mean, I grew up in a very musical family.

I was born into a household where my aunt, grandmother and mother lived their music. They all sang harmony, and by the time I was 2, I could sing 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat' in three-part harmony.

Just coming from a musical family, I was always surrounded by it. On the car rides to school, my mom loved playing A Tribe Called Quest and the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' and then my dad was listening to a lot of Bill Withers and Stevie Wonder.

There are a lot of classical musicians in my family, so I grew up with that being kind of normal.

I come from a family of musicians.

My mom used to play a lot of music around the house, and I think that's where I get my inspiration from.

I always loved music - it was always in the house - and my younger brother is musical, too.

My dad was a drummer for The Mamas & The Papas, and his mother was in the jazz world, so music has always been very much in my blood.

Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.

Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

I always loved the guitar, from when I was quite little. My dad had a G banjo at the house that he played. When he had parties, my sisters always played piano, and my dad played banjo.