Quotes About Family

There is always a musical exchange happening between me and my sons.

I grew up in a very musical family, but music was not encouraged as a career. It was a hobby.

I grew up in a musical atmosphere at home.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

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

My family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life.

Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.

Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.

I started doing theater, musical theater, because of my sister. She's a singer; she's an actress, too.

My family was always musically inclined.

I've never acted with my father, but we have always connected through music. He has been a great influence musically. He has always been encouraging about my music and is always happy when I sing.

I'll tell you what's crazy: Nobody in my family is musically inclined, no form, fashion, anything. I always had some type of connection to music though. This was long before I ever knew that I could sing, or I ever even tried to start singing. It was something different, man, it made me feel some type of way.

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

My grandmother introduced me to musicals and Fred Astaire and Cary Grant and all the American comedies and classics.

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

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

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

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 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.

I still want to make Kyra proud of the person I am - father, husband, actor, musician.

When I met my wife Vicky's family, I had to go out of my way to convince them, to show them, that I wasn't anything like their idea of a musician.

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.