“In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.” WorldArtMotherFatherListeningSingingOur FamilySpokesListening To Music Author:Kiki Smith
“My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.” WantGivingWantedUsedMotherVoiceLessonsSingingPainful Author:Linda Lavin
“When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.” MotherActingClassSingingDancingSinging And Dancing Author:Beau Mirchoff
“People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.” PeopleThinkingMotherSingingChasingWombPavement Author:Adele
“I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.” ShowsMotherTelevisionSingingDancingLucyCarolsSinging And DancingTelevision Watching Author:Debra Messing
“People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.” PeopleKnowsDoneMotherFatherBornDadMetsSingingResearchEuropeMovedRaisedMy DadItalianRomeOperaAlabamaDenmarkCopenhagen Author:Giancarlo Esposito
“I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.” LightMotherFatherHouseLostTreeGrewGrew UpSingingTinyGoldenDawnPianoPalestinianShowersChordsHouse MusicGolden LightTiny Houses Author:Naomi Shihab Nye