Quotes About Music

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.

I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.

I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.

When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

Hey, is that you Elvis? I wanna speak to the Colonel. Jump to it, you mother.

If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.

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.

My mother says I have boring percussion.

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.

My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.