Musical Inheritance Quotes

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

You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

Music always lived with me, like a family tradition.

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

I am not from a musical family.

I have been given something really, really special and really unique, and it is not just in and of itself having learned from my father, who is the greatest exponent of this musical style. But it is an oral tradition that is only generally passed on in that manner, and so without the people who continue to... learn it and perform it, it dies.

I come from a family of musicians.

My father was a musician, so I feel like falling into this career was a bit inevitable.

On my mom's side, the Jewish side of the family, I come from a family of musicians who are pianists, so I've always loved cultural expression.

I came from a huge extended 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.

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.

It just runs through my family, to be honest. I come from a very big musical, entertainment background.

My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.

I come from a musical kind of family.

I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her.

I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that. It encouraged my grand aunt to find me a music teacher, because it was quite obvious music was in me.

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.

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

By the grace of God, I'm the only person in my family with any musical ability.

I come from probably many generations of singers because my grandmother had a really incredible voice and sang in church. And my mother had a gorgeous voice and was always singing around the house.

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