Marcus Mumford Quotes

My mother and dad loved music, were very much into music.

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

I don't really read books. Wish I did.

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

I was kind of reading you know Judy Blume and stuff like that. But yeah, but I've since educated myself.

Writers do not come out of houses without books.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.

I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A lot of people don't - they think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.