David Edwards Quotes

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

I was inspired by my dad; he played trumpet in high school.

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick sharkskin suit. Believe it or not, that's how I decided I wanted to get into music.

I started off as a kid singing with my dad. My dad was my best pal. But he had seven kids, and I was the only one who was kind of interested in what he was playing and singing at the piano. And he was not only my dad, but he was my best pal, and I was interested in doing whatever he wanted to.

My father being a theatre person used to compose music for his plays. He noticed me singing one of his compositions at a young age and he was amazed. From then on, he taught me the little things that he knew about music.

Growing up and playing guitar with my dad and stuff like really influenced me. It definitely must've had an impact on why Miley wanted to sing and why I wanted to sing and play guitar as well.

My dad was a big influence because he did a lot of music.

My dad is my biggest musical inspiration.

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

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.

I was nurtured to play music pretty much from birth.

My songs would be nothing had it not been for my father. I follow his footsteps.

Raphael Saadiq said to me, quite often, that Chuck D was his history teacher. And so he got a lot from the music, things that he wasn't getting maybe in school. And I feel the same way with regards to Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder.

Dad had four world records, and they happened to be Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Ali Farka Toure. I tried singing like these people, and it didn't work.

I started to play music again because of my dad and my mom. I grew up playing guitar with my dad, and he and my mom encouraged me to start again.

My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.

Music is in my DNA!

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence.

I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.

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.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

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