Gladys Knight Quotes

I actually grew up listening to music as like - church music and stuff like that.

I grew up on a lot of gospel music.

I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.

I was influenced by gospel and Christian music from a very young age.

When I was little I was into gospel music.

I grew up around a lot of church musicians.

My father started me singing in church.

For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

Music just runs in my family. My dad and my uncles are a gospel quartet, Latimore Brothers. They've been doing their thing ever since I was a kid, so I just kind of grew up around that.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

I listen to gospel music.

I was a big fan of black gospel. As a kid, there were black groups I sang with from my teen years to my early 20s.

I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview.

I'm from the gospel world. I grew up playing in church.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

I started out in gospel music. A lot of people don't know that I started out in gospel music, and I've never lost sight of it.

I listen to a lot of old-school worship music.

We played, jazz, blues, dixie, and it all came from the church. When I went to church, I would see the sisters and brothers doing the same beat.

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

I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church.

I didn't grow up listening to musicals. I sang coritos or Spanish spiritual songs and was raised on gospel singer Kirk Franklin.

I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's never been anything else for me to do.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

I have been singing gospel music since I was four years old.