Anne-Marie Duff Quotes

When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.

I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

I've always sung. My dad had a song in his heart and on his lips 24/7. A lot of the time, it was the same song and the same phrase over and over again.

You could say singing is in our genes. Both our parents sang and made up songs constantly.

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played the piano. This was post-war Britain, and they played boogie woogie and blues, which was the underground music of the time.

I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood, and I love it.

I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.

It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, this is good!' You'd always here it at old family parties, like, Gladys Knight and I'd always love it but I didn't really get to know it and respect it until I was a bit older.

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.

The singing was something I got from my father.

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

Music just runs in my family. My dad and my uncles are a gospel quartet, Latimore Brothers. They've been doing their thing ever since I was a kid, so I just kind of grew up around that.

My grandpa was a country singer, and I started learning guitar from him, just at the kitchen table when I was younger, and I got really into it.

My mother's brother is a very good singer. My grandfather took up classical singing lessons and learnt to play the harmonium.

My grandma used to sing. I feel like it's in our blood!

Music is in my genes. My entire family is into singing.

I was shy: I sang at home but not in public. My dad's side of the family sang, so I would hear their voices and think mine couldn't compare.

I always did sing. It's always been something I love to do but it has also been the most private and most secret thing that you don't really want to let the world in on.

There's no background of creativity in my family; there are no actors or musicians.

I love songs, and I love to tell stories, and so a lot of times, if you really want a good story, you got to flip the radio dial over to country.

I love to harmonize.

I have a beautiful, young wife who sings and dances, so there's a lot of duetting going on at my house.

My mom loved my Christmas music, so I did an awful lot of it!

I love singing. I just love it.