Amy Grant Quotes

I grew up around a lot of church musicians.

I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church.

I've been singing forever; I grew up singing in church.

For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.

I was a big fan of black gospel. As a kid, there were black groups I sang with from my teen years to my early 20s.

I grew up singing in church as a little boy.

I'm from the gospel world. I grew up playing in church.

I was influenced by gospel and Christian music from a very young age.

When I was little I was into gospel music.

Music was brought up in the church.

People love to hear the choir sing the hymns.

So many great singers we know have come from the church.

My father started me singing in church.

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.

We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a bath - at 14 months or something like that. My mother and dad both swore that was true, but I'm sure it wasn't very good... We always had the Metropolitan Opera on the radio on Saturday afternoons.

I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview.

My parents were in the local church choir, and I used to go along and sing and play the organ at all the weddings and christenings.

The idea of music coming from the Church is not new.

We played, jazz, blues, dixie, and it all came from the church. When I went to church, I would see the sisters and brothers doing the same beat.

I actually grew up listening to music as like - church music and stuff like that.

I grew up singing in church. I've been doing that since I was 3 years old. Singing was a blessing for me to do.

I grew up on a lot of gospel music.