Leonard Slatkin Quotes

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.

I come from a family of musicians.

My grandma's into music. My mom is a singer. Even my sister is a much better singer than I am. So you could say music runs in the family.

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.

I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'

I want Bappa to be amongst the best music composers. My father was a great singer and I also did quite well and now my son would take forward the legacy, as music is in our blood.

My family is all musicians - my dad plays drums, my mom plays flute, my older brother plays drums, my little brother plays drums and piano. For some reason, I didn't get the memo, so I just play bass.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.

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.

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.

My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor.

My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple's double - she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'

Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

For people, we were never Dabboo Malik's kids, we were always Anu Malik's nephews.

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

It just runs through my family, to be honest. I come from a very big musical, entertainment background.

There's a lot to live up to when three of your parents are successful in the music business.

After the music that had been created by my family, I thought there was no way I could stack up.

On my mom's side, the Jewish side of the family, I come from a family of musicians who are pianists, so I've always loved cultural expression.

Our parents were musicians.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

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

Both of my parents were musicians.