Julie Payette Quotes

I've always been into music. My mom and dad used to always play music in the house.

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

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.

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

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.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I got a lot of knowledge about everything from classical music to jazz to musicals.

I've always been music-oriented. My dad was a musician, and I listened to the radio all of the time.

My parents were both very musically inclined, they were both songwriters and musicians, so we grew up in the house singing music together, and R&B had a huge strong arm in the foundation of my career.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.

My family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.

My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.

But it's funny, I really was quite introverted as a child. I just liked music, so mum and dad bought me a piano when I was seven - I actually got up to Grade Seven at the London College of Music on piano.

My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied piano as a kid. My musical background and upbringing was very much a mix.

I grew up in a musical atmosphere at home.

My mom is the piano player in my dad's church - she's also the choir director - and she's just a musician through and through.

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

I love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so I also love rock.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.