Mabel Quotes

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.

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

Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.

I was raised around music.

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

My father had a phenomenal knowledge of music; my mom's family were all musicians.

I always loved music - it was always in the house - and my younger brother is musical, too.

My family was always musically inclined.

I'm not a musician, I can't read music, but I came from a family of music fans. Not mad music fans, but people who like music. Both of my parents can play the piano. They were very good dancers, which I am not.

My mom's an art teacher, so I always had music in the house. She always had records, and I was mesmerized by the mechanics of how a turntable works.

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.

I come from a family of musicians.

I was surrounded by music in my family, surrounded by people who sang songs - every single person I knew as a child growing up had one, two, three songs they knew from start to finish.

The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.

I come from a musical family, and Carnatic music made up so much of my childhood, my upbringing, and my musical transition.

I was raised with a lot of music around me at all times.

My mom used to play a lot of music around the house, and I think that's where I get my inspiration from.

I simply love Wagner's music. That actually started very early. He was the first composer I was exposed very much to because my parents introduced me to Wagner's music very early.

I come from a non-musical family.

There are guitars everywhere around all of our houses. Pianos. Guitars. It's kind of just in our blood. It's in our nature.

Ask about music growing up, I'll tell you I grew up playing classical music, and I didn't grow up in a musical household.

The way it worked was my mom came from a musical family, and my dad didn't - he was a pathologist.

As teenagers, we used to listen to entire Rush albums, entire Pink Floyd albums and shut down the lights and it was great.

I grew up in a musical atmosphere at home.

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.