Dion DiMucci Quotes

My songs would be nothing had it not been for my father. I follow his footsteps.

I come from a very strenuous, strict, disciplined classical music background. My grandfather, noted Carnatic classical exponent Dr. Sripada Pinakapani, was a Padma Bhushan recipient.

Even though I was a rock 'n' roll fan, hearing the raw blues was like listening to music on a much deeper kind of level.

Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by rock and roll. It's the music of our time, and it's 'in the air,' as Steve Reich would say. My experience of it is just really direct because I'm actually playing in a collaborative band.

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

That's how I want to be with stuff: I always want to be in country music, first and foremost, forever.

I didn't grow up with classical music. My father was a folk music singer.

I was born into a household where my aunt, grandmother and mother lived their music. They all sang harmony, and by the time I was 2, I could sing 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat' in three-part harmony.

I am very fortunate - I grew up with music.

Without people like Dylan and the Beatles and people like Paul Simon, I think rock n' roll would have died out like Dixieland jazz.

My whole being sonically comes from my dad's understanding of music.

Just coming from a musical family, I was always surrounded by it. On the car rides to school, my mom loved playing A Tribe Called Quest and the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' and then my dad was listening to a lot of Bill Withers and Stevie Wonder.

Growing up, I heard nothing but the best music.

My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.

My father's music is all I remember from my childhood.

The music in my family has always been there; it's been quite an obvious trait that seems to have trickled down the bloodline.

My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.

There are a lot of classical musicians in my family, so I grew up with that being kind of normal.

I don't want to feel like the cool kid in the crowd who doesn't want to do what the artist's saying. I want to be so in awe of the artist that I'm literally jumping up and down, even if I've got on brand new Louboutins.

I've always had music in my blood.

I am fortunate that I was born in a family where music was already a part of life.

Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.

Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.

I come from a family of musicians.

I learned to sing from my mum and dad's record collection.