Teddy Thompson Quotes

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

Our parents were musicians.

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

I come from a family of musicians.

I was born out of classical music.

Both of my parents were musicians.

Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of the time. You'd probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.

My mom was a singer, and my dad had been playing in bands with my mom's brother. My dad married my mom, and so I was sorta surrounded by music from the get-go. Born right into it.

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

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

I was raised around music.

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

Just coming from a musical family, I was always surrounded by it. On the car rides to school, my mom loved playing A Tribe Called Quest and the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' and then my dad was listening to a lot of Bill Withers and Stevie Wonder.

My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.

There are a lot of classical musicians in my family, so I grew up with that being kind of normal.

My dad was a drummer for The Mamas & The Papas, and his mother was in the jazz world, so music has always been very much in my blood.

Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family tree.

I wouldn't be who I am if my parents hadn't been musicians.

My dad played music so I was around it at a really young age.

I come from a musical kind of family.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

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

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.

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