Laura Mvula Quotes

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

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.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

I grew up with music definitely.

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 think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

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

My parents did not have any interest in music.

I was born out of classical music.

I mean, I grew up in a very musical family.

I am very fortunate - I grew up with music.

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.

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.

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

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.

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 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 was raised around music.

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

Our parents were musicians.

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

I grew up with a wide range of music.

My dad was a great guy; my mother was wonderful. I was very lucky to be around music from the time I woke up until I went to bed.