Anoushka Shankar 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.

Our parents were musicians.

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'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.

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

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

My dad has been playing guitar basically all his life. He's sort of who got me into rock music.

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.

My father, Aparesh Lahiri, was a musician too, and at a very young age, I was geared up for a career in music.

Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family tree.

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

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

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.

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.

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

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.

From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up.

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.