I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

My father was very fond of music, my mum performed and her mother was a music teacher. So I think all that has passed…

— KK

My father was a minister, and my mother was a music teacher.

— Walter F. Mondale

I always tell people is really make sure you know why you want to do it. For me, I didnt make a conscious decision…

— Jhene Aiko

It's really much more than the plastic of album covers and record sales and dollars and cents. Music is just everybody's mother. Music is…

— Donovan

I heard these stories [about musicians from my mother] and somehow music, it was my understanding what my father had done. I didn't know…

— Jon Gordon

I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music, spirituals. I would sing for people and…

— Florence Henderson

I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about…

— R. Kelly

I started singing when I was three - my mother would teach me some versions of 'Thirupugazh.' And I loved being on stage.

— Sid Sriram

My mother's music speaks to me as an oracle.

— Selah Louise Marley

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

— Tracy Chapman

I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I was in…

— Ryan Murphy

“That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her…

— Thomas Hardy

I had trained in Hindustani classical singing and my mother thought I could become a playback singer, but I always wanted to become an…

— Amrita Rao

I don't have a family that grew up singing and playing all the time. I didn't really have anything to judge my abilities against…

— Van Hunt

Singing actually came first. As a kid, I grew up singing in church and around the house.

— Tink