Lesley Garrett Quotes

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

I come from a family of musicians.

Our 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.

Music was a big part of my upbringing. My mum and my grandma are very passionate about music.

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

My father played music, so I was always around music, even from the time I was born. My father actually was the one that originally got me into music.

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.

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

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

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 was born out of classical music.

Both of my parents were musicians.

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.

Music always lived with me, like a family tradition.

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.

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

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.

Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

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.

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.

I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.