Jill Scott Quotes

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

I just love being in the arts.

I was raised with a lot of music around me at all times.

I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

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.

I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

I grew up listening to hipster jazz and classical records... we went and watched ballet and orchestras - lots of cool stuff. Which I'm really grateful for - it's pretty nice being introduced to that when you're little.

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

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.

We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.

My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.

I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember.

The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

I can remember dancing around living room with my two sisters to the music of Paganini and Mozart. I can still remember my dad combing the newspaper, circling all the free concerts in town, and on the weekends, we would go as a family.

There's nothing like the joy of the arts, and promoting the arts early in children is going to give them such a start in life in a way.

I had family who exposed me to all sorts of different media involving actors - films, theatrical productions touring through Boston. My grandparents, particularly my mother's parents, were huge fans of all the arts, and they took me to these shows and exhibits at a very young age, so I was just immersed in it.

My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house. As it happened, while my father was the ambassador in Portugal, the ambassador's residence had a piano, and so I started learning how to play it at the age of five.

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

I have always been part of a family with a great appreciation for the arts.

My father had a phenomenal knowledge of music; my mom's family were all musicians.

My parents have both done some music stuff. My family was very artist-friendly, so that was encouraging.

At a young age, I was introduced to Joni Mitchell by my mum. My dad was into progressive rock.

To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.