“I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.” PeopleThinkingWantParentExampleMusician Author:St. Vincent
“I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.” RealityParentVoiceMusicianTradeSingersCommandDefinedInner VoiceProdigiesBeyond Reality Author:Black Francis
“Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.” ThinkingKidsAgeCertainParentTeacherPlayerRegretMusicianDecidedBaseballI RegretBaseball PlayerMusic Teacher Author:Charlie Day
“I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of instruments, but my dad actually played all the instruments I could play and then added another twenty five or thirty five different categories on there ...he was incredible! He got an act actually in Vegas, my parents Bobby and Phyllis Sherwood.” I CanDifferentPlayAgeParentFiveDadMusicianTwentiesInstrumentsIncrediblesMy DadThirtyCategoriesVegasTwenty FivePlaying DrumsInstrumentalists Author:Billy Sherwood
“During my early years, I thought I might be a musician. Like most kids, I didn't do what my parents wanted me to do. They were gung-ho that all their kids become actors. They loved showbiz so much. I am a product of nepotism, basically.” YearsMightKidsWantedActorsParentProductsMusicianShowbizNepotism Author:Jeff Bridges
“My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like Jack Hirschman.” ArtistParentGrewMomGrew UpMusicianSevenGuitarMy MomBonfireTalented Musicians Author:Amber Tamblyn
“When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned for myself. But in reality the experience of getting into music was just the opposite. My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.” YearsMadeTwoRealityWantedParentLessonsMusicianOppositesGuitarSingersEveningTwo YearsDepressingSongwritersSinger SongwritersWednesdayClassical GuitarMost Depressing Author:Andrew Garfield
“Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.” HardWantedFoundParentGrowing UpGrowingBrotherLuckyMusicianActressesDrivenMy BrotherMy SisterGreat Parents Author:Grace Gummer
“Who should have children? Those who are responsible and completely dedicated to the responsibility which is actually a very small percentage of humans. Being a parent should be a career. Whereas some people are engineers, musicians, or lawyers, others with the desire and the skills can be fathers and mothers. Schools can be eliminated if the professional parent is also the educator of the child.” PeopleIfsShouldHumansChildrenSchoolMotherDesireFatherParentResponsibilityCareersSkillsMusicianShould HaveResponsibleLawyerDedicatedEngineersPercentagesEducatorBeing A Parent Author:Paul Watson
“A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.” EndsArtistParentDifficultMusicianMy FriendsSingle Parent Author:Shirley Manson
“I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music and was just trying to copy what I heard on the radio. And at a very early age I started experimenting with old tape recorders from my parents. I was 11 or 12 at that time and then when I was like 14 or 15 I had a punk band. I made all the classic rock musician's evolutions and then in the early nineties I bought my first sampler and that is how I got into electronic music, because I was able to produce it on my own. That was quite a relief.” TryingYearsFirstsMadeAgeAbleParentMy OwnHeardRocksProduceEvolutionBandMusicianMusic IsGuitarRadioPopsClassicReliefCopiesPunkTapePop MusicRock MusicElectronic MusicRecordersPlaying GuitarClassic RockRock Musicians Author:Christian Fennesz
“If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League schools, or who will be tall enough to make the basketball team, then there is a danger that the life of the child will bear the burden of that expectation; and the risk of disappointment and the cost of disappointment will be even higher than they are now, and even now they can be considerable.” IfsChildrenEnoughSchoolParentRiskTeamDangerBearsHigherCostBasketballMusicianExpectationsAthleteDisappointmentBurdenBe GoodLeagueTallGreat MusicIvyBasketball TeamGreat MusicianIvy LeagueGood AthleteIvy League Schools Author:Michael Sandel
“I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.” KnowsParentBalanceMusicianBeing A ParentIntertwined Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at that time about what I was going to do or where I was going. I was a musician. I was going to play. I had a band. We were going to make enough money to survive on.” EnoughPlayParentDoubtBandMusician Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Your parents tell you that you can do anything that you want, but then you turn 20, and they're like "I think you should be a doctor, instead of a musician."” ThinkingParentMusician Author:Matias Tellez
“You should form your own opinions, and I think that's why social media is good because it's an alternative source of information that can help you form your opinion, that might not be your parents, and might not be what the media is trying to force down your throat. So that's why it's important for artists and musicians to speak up, because for those people who have an inkling that their parents' views aren't right or that their parents don't have any views or whatever, that's an alternative source of information that can help them form their own opinion.” PeopleThinkingTryingImportantHelpingArtistSpeakParentOpinionMusicianSocial Media Author:Ellie Rowsell
“My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.” HardStarsParentSeriousMusicianPopsTouringPop Stars Author:Rufus Wainwright
“Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.” HomeSchoolParentWeekStreetsShapesMusicianBusPhiladelphiaMaryland Author:Olivia Wilde
“My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.” ParentVoiceGrowing UpTeacherGrowingMusicianSingersDancerOperaRock N RollOpera Singers Author:Sandra Bullock