Charlie Haden Quotes

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

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

My mom loves music and it poured into my childhood.

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

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.

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

My dad's music was a great inspiration to me.

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

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.

My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.

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

Both of my parents were musicians.

I am very fortunate - I grew up with music.

My first experience with the arts must have been the sound of my mother singing to me when I was in the womb. The sound of my father singing to me when he held me. The sound of The Temptations records that they played.

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

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.

I grew up in a great family.

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

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.

My mother and dad loved music, were very much into music.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

Music has always been a huge part of my life from a very young age, and today it remains a very powerful and natural way for me to connect with people, as well as my children.

My parents did not have any interest in music.