Momo Hirai Quotes

I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.

I started playing music at a pretty young age.

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

Growing up, my sisters were both into dancing, so I went to a lot of dance recitals, mostly because there were always pretty girls in leotards.

I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.

I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a stage and having a love for performing from a young age.

I started dancing when I was 5 years old. Ballet. Flamenco.

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.

My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

I like music and I like ladies. I like to see them dance.

I started playing music when I was really young.

I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.

My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since.

'Grease' was how I learned that I really liked music and musicals and movies that included music.

When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

Growing up, we had folk records.

I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.

I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.