Adrianne Lenker Quotes

My father played music, so I was always around music, even from the time I was born. My father actually was the one that originally got me into music.

My mom was a singer, and my dad had been playing in bands with my mom's brother. My dad married my mom, and so I was sorta surrounded by music from the get-go. Born right into it.

Music was a big part of my upbringing. My mum and my grandma are very passionate about music.

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

I have loved music so much from when I was little, and I don't know whether it was because I saw my dad doing it and then I got the idea; I don't know what came first... But I always had a hairbrush in the mirror singing. I was always with him backstage; I would go out and be pulled in for the last song.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

I was raised around music.

I grew up with music definitely.

My dad was a professional musician; my mom played, too, but just for fun. All my siblings played. The house was full of music books, videos, albums. I guess it's not surprising that I ended up becoming a musician.

I am very fortunate - I grew up with music.

Music's always been in my home. My dad plays guitar, and I grew up listening to cumbia and salsa and boleros.

I had been exposed to classical music my whole life; even before I was born.

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

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 always sang harmony with my family growing up.

My mum was a big fan of E.L.O. and Elvis Costello. She used to play that, consistently, all the time when we were kids. And my dad, he would claim to be a singer... You know, he loves singing, and he used to sing a lot when he was a kid and at parties and stuff like that. So I come from a very party-musical family.

I was born out of classical music.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.

I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

Our parents were musicians.

Both of my parents were musicians.

I mean, I grew up in a very musical family.

I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life.