California Quote by Ben Harper

I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I…

— Ben Harper

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.

— Teddy Thompson

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

— Lesley Garrett

My family is very musical.

— Ava Max

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni…

— Inara George

My father owned a music store when I was growing up in Rock Falls, Illinois. He could play all the instruments, which you had…

— Louie Bellson

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

— Gary Larson

Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I…

— Rokia Traore

I have had a place in New York in the musicians' district on the Upper West Side since 1986.

— Stephen Hough

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would…

— E. L. Doctorow

I come from a family of musicians.

— Dianne Reeves

I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside -…

— Cliff Martinez