Patty Griffin Quotes

The singing was something I got from my father.

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

I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.

Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.

I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.

I was born into a household where my aunt, grandmother and mother lived their music. They all sang harmony, and by the time I was 2, I could sing 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat' in three-part harmony.

We were a great family for singing. There were good voices on both sides and no reluctance to use them.

I come from a family of musicians.

Music is in my genes. My entire family is into singing.

On my mom's side, the Jewish side of the family, I come from a family of musicians who are pianists, so I've always loved cultural expression.

Everybody sung in my family.

My dad's paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to visit them in their senior building, and they were, like, the stars of the building, especially hosting and performing in their senior talent show.

When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.

I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.

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

I always sang harmony with my family growing up.

I always loved the guitar, from when I was quite little. My dad had a G banjo at the house that he played. When he had parties, my sisters always played piano, and my dad played banjo.

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

I'd say music runs in my blood. My parents are exceptionally talented singers, so even before I was born, it was a known fact to them that I'd become a singer. Thanks to my genes, I started off at the age of three and since then, music has meant everything to me.

I come from a musical kind of family.

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

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