Mel Tillis Quotes

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

My mom loves music and it poured into my childhood.

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

I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers.

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.

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.

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.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.

Both of my parents were musicians.

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.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

My father's music is all I remember from my childhood.

I come from a family of musicians.

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.

I come from a home that had a lot of music played in general.

I wouldn't be who I am if my parents hadn't been musicians.

Music is in my DNA!

I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.

I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

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.