Benches Quote by Al Jarreau

I sat down at the piano and my hands began to browse over the keys. Thensomething happened. I felt as though I could reach…

— Thomas A. Dorsey

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at…

— Michel Legrand

My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.

— Hank Williams

Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back…

— Waris Dirie

When I was little, I went to church with my family to get baptized, and the choir was singing and I just remember getting…

— Doechii

The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had…

— Laura Mvula

My dad passed away...and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom…

— Neil Young

I fell out of the womb and landed in my mother's high heels.

— Leslie Jordan

I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside…

— Florence Welch

I found my grandmother dead. It shook me up. I got up to make her breakfast, and I knew it was strange that she…

— Gil Scott-Heron

As a little boy of 3 or 4, I became lame. Something was wrong with my right leg. There are pictures of me being…

— Gian Carlo Menotti

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

— Miranda Kerr