Dickey Betts Quotes

I always loved the guitar, from when I was quite little. My dad had a G banjo at the house that he played. When he had parties, my sisters always played piano, and my dad played banjo.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

I come from a big family of musicians, so I was lucky enough to grow up with guitars all around the house. Even though I didn't really know much at the time, my brother had a Les Paul Goldtop, and my dad always had this Fender or some bizarre Pedulla-Orsini guitar.

I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life.

My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano and sang as well, so there was all this music in my childhood.

Music's always been a big part of my life. Because of my father, I was always surrounded by music and musicians, and in school, I was in the chorus, and I played various instruments.

I grew up with my parents always listening to rock music. My dad wanted me to play guitar, but I always had more of an ear for drums. He really wanted me to be a guitar player, like him.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.

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

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

My mom played 12-string and sang, and my dad could play pretty much any wind instrument and had a great ear for harmony. Soon enough, my sister and I got into music because we were always around it, and people were always listening to it.

When I was a kid, I played the piano for six years, and all my family are musicians.

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.

Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.

I started playing when I was 5. I'm from a family of musicians.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

My dad played guitar, and so there were always guitars kicking around the house that I was never allowed to touch. My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.

My dad was a professional musician; my mom played, too, but just for fun. All my siblings played. The house was full of music books, videos, albums. I guess it's not surprising that I ended up becoming a musician.

I've been classically trained in piano since I was little. My father was a pianist, so they started me early.

My dad was a musician, played on the road and played all of his life. And I grew up in a musical family. I heard it all. I mean, I got accustomed to listening to Roy Acuff and all the old guys. It was really cool for me growing up in a family like that.

I was surrounded by music in my family, surrounded by people who sang songs - every single person I knew as a child growing up had one, two, three songs they knew from start to finish.