Music Background Quotes

I've been touching instruments since the day I was born. My mother is Brazilian, and she listens to Brazilian music. My father was a musician, and I've seen pictures of him when he was in a band playing guitar and piano. He loved country music, Frank Sinatra, and stuff like that.

I'm so jealous of my friends who came from these super musical households where they were learning piano at three years old. My parents didn't really play loads of music around the house. We had the radio, but they weren't teaching me about music.

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.

Throughout my years in From First to Last, I was always dabbling and making electronic music on my own time. The first records I ever owned were crossover electronic rock, like Prodigy, Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails.

At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif.

My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.

I moved to L.A. when I was, like, 6 months old. I was born in Georgia 'cause my dad was going to college at the University of Georgia for music. Then we moved to the Valley, and my dad was a songwriter out here.

I grew up in Southern California, so there is just a part of me that is a Hollywood rocker.

I grew up on R&B and soul, so that backbone is always there.

My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting.

I was raised on Marvin Gaye. Before I knew Babyface or anyone else, I knew Marvin Gaye. My mother played Marvin Gaye.

I've been in the studio environment since I was young, so I know what to expect.

I just sort of grew up with music always in the background like a soundtrack. And it really hit me hard when The Beatles came along, like so many people. That got me started digging back further to Chuck Berry.

I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna.

Before hip-hop existed, we were listening to soul songs from the '70s. I grew up with Motown, Elton John, and the Beatles. To me, that's good music.

I have been singing gospel music since I was four years old.

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

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

I think people forget even though we were labelled a synth band because of 'The Hurting,' but keyboards are not our native instruments. Roland's a guitar player and I'm a bass player.

The reason I got into music was obviously because of bands like The Beatles and Pink Floyd, things like that.

I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.