Earned Quote by Billy Corgan

Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.

— Mandy Patinkin

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

— Leif Garrett

I come from a very musical family, and a songwriter, a musician, is a byproduct of the influences of his life, whether cultural, artistically,…

— Pedro Capo

With pretty much everything that I've done, in terms of going from being a songwriter and producer for other artists to doing my stuff,…

— Lauv

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only…

— Lady Gaga

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

— Nora Roberts

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other…

— Aleksa Palladino

In my own life, I had gone from Maryland State Honors Chorus and writing and singing my own songs to a musical silence. It…

— Shervin Pishevar

Everything I did with my life I did so that I could give my parents everything they didn't have because of me.

— Richard Simmons

I've composed all my life and kept things, and even developed things I've done in college into something now.

— Terry Bozzio

I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was…

— Regina Spektor

Everyone who gave me food, who took away my hunger, inspired me to compose. They told me their stories, and I had no other…

— Juan Gabriel