Quotes About Music

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research.

It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.

You don't have to have a terrific voice or know how to read music. The only requirement is that you enjoy singing, fun and fellowship. And, this is a great hobby for fathers and sons to share.

I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.

I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.

My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support.

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.

My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep

All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father's shortwave radio.

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.

My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career.

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.