Jason Becker Quotes

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

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.

I was born out of classical music.

I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.

I grew up with music definitely.

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 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.

I didn't grow up with classical music. My father was a folk music singer.

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

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

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.

Music's always been a big part of my life. Because of my father, I was always surrounded by music and musicians, and in school, I was in the chorus, and I played various instruments.

In Cleveland, music was always a big part of my life. That's really where I cut my teeth.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Since I was a kid, music has been a huge part of my life. My parents had a pretty solid vinyl collection and exposed me to some amazing artists.

I was raised around music.

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

Our parents were musicians.