Alan Jackson Quotes

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.

I come from a home that had a lot of music played in general.

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

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up.

I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

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

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.

I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

That's where I get my whole music theory from, my pops and my grandfather.

I learned everything I know about music from my parents and my sisters.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

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

The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically.

It's like there's the rest of the world, and then there's America. Part of the reason I would really love continue to making music over here because so much of American music has inspired me, whether it's Jeff Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen.

They've been brought up on the best music. It's gonna be so good.

People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

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.

I come from a musical kind of family.