Wynton Marsalis Quotes

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.

I come from a family of musicians.

There's a lot to live up to when three of your parents are successful in the music business.

I want Bappa to be amongst the best music composers. My father was a great singer and I also did quite well and now my son would take forward the legacy, as music is in our blood.

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.

I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'

My daughter gets a lot of her natural music ability from her mother because she's a world-class singer, also.

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.

My grandma's into music. My mom is a singer. Even my sister is a much better singer than I am. So you could say music runs in the family.

It's in my blood to work in music.

When Mother put me out on stage at eight years old, everyone wanted me to be just like Daddy.

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

I'd say music runs in my blood. My parents are exceptionally talented singers, so even before I was born, it was a known fact to them that I'd become a singer. Thanks to my genes, I started off at the age of three and since then, music has meant everything to me.

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.

I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.

I'm not a complete moron like most musicians whom I've met.

Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

For people, we were never Dabboo Malik's kids, we were always Anu Malik's nephews.

By the grace of God, I'm the only person in my family with any musical ability.