Ellie Goulding Quotes

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

One of the things that was a blessing for me is my parents were music lovers. Neither of my parents played an instrument, but they were avid record buyers. And I grew up at every age listening to all kinds of music.

I can remember just learning to walk and trying to dance like Elvis and sing like Elvis, so I was very, very passionate about music at a very young age.

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 parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.

Music was massive from an early age. My parents were huge music fans, especially soul, and they played records in our house all the time, and me and my brother and sister would dance and sing about the living room.

My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice.

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

It's funny because my mom is not a singer at all, nor is my father. But I definitely get more of my father's tone.

My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.

My parents are both into music. My mom sings and my dad plays piano, so there was always music everywhere. I was singing at a very young age, but I actually got my buzz through rapping.

I've always been music-oriented. My dad was a musician, and I listened to the radio all of the time.

I do love singing. I wouldn't say I'm any good, but I definitely love it - especially jazz singing.

I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

My mum was a big fan of E.L.O. and Elvis Costello. She used to play that, consistently, all the time when we were kids. And my dad, he would claim to be a singer... You know, he loves singing, and he used to sing a lot when he was a kid and at parties and stuff like that. So I come from a very party-musical family.

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

I started playing music at a pretty young age.

My parents did not have any interest in music.

I remember growing up singing; even when I was just three years old, I was singing all the time in the house. My parents said I was singing before I could even talk properly.

I love Celtic music and listening to it, but I just don't have the type of voice to sing it.

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

My family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life.

I knew I wanted to do music at eight years of age. I listened to a lot of Motown growing up, and it got to the point where I started mimicking people - Michael Jackson or whoever. People started to notice I could hold a tone. The bug was always there.