Quotes About Legacy

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician.

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

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.

I'd really like to do a biopic of a musician.

My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.

I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.

Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan changed everything and made him want to become a musician.

I haven't done any genealogical exploring myself, though members of my family and also of my husband's family have traced things back. I have a great grandfather on my mother's side who was a musician, and I'd like to know more about his life.

The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a man who didn't come from much. His father left him and his family for another woman. His father was a musician, which I thought was pretty interesting.

There was no way we were going to let this band hobble around on three legs. We chose the route that every professional actor, athlete and musician should do - leave the legend intact and bow out at the top.

Everybody knew James Brown. Every musician dreamed of being in his band.

Thelonious Monk was one of the musicians I most connected with early on. I'm a huge Betty Carter fan, and the way that Abbey Lincoln and Shirley Horn grew immensely from the time they were young is so inspirational.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.

I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have.

Our parents were musicians.

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

There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.