Mavis Staples Quotes

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

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

Everybody sung in my family.

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.

The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

My father's music is all I remember from my childhood.

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.

I get inspired by a lot of different stuff. My father is a huge music fan.

Music was fundamental in my family. Sang at bars, all the way to church on Sunday. Music in school, played guitar pulls at the house, go to other people's houses and break out the guitars, it was fun. It was always there, I've just been a part of it.

Music is in my DNA!

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

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.

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.

It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!

My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

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.

I come from a musical kind of family.

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.

I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

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