Shaggy Quotes

I come from a non-musical family.

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

I come from a family of musicians.

I'm not a musician, I can't read music, but I came from a family of music fans. Not mad music fans, but people who like music. Both of my parents can play the piano. They were very good dancers, which I am not.

I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.

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

Our parents were musicians.

My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.

Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's mother was the head of the Vienna Conservatory's piano department. It all canceled out in my case. I'm completely hopeless in music.

I come from a big family of musicians, so I was lucky enough to grow up with guitars all around the house. Even though I didn't really know much at the time, my brother had a Les Paul Goldtop, and my dad always had this Fender or some bizarre Pedulla-Orsini guitar.

I mean, I grew up in a very musical family.

I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life.

My family wasn't involved in music, but I love music.

It's interesting because neither of my parents play instruments. They both love music, but neither of them are musicians. Somehow, I was drawn to it.

I am fortunate that I was born in a family where music was already a part of life.

People think it comes easy to us because we are from a family full of musicians, but I feel it's all about talent.

My family is all musicians - my dad plays drums, my mom plays flute, my older brother plays drums, my little brother plays drums and piano. For some reason, I didn't get the memo, so I just play bass.

My father played music, so I was always around music, even from the time I was born. My father actually was the one that originally got me into music.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.

Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.

My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!