Grants Quote by Billy Preston

My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical family, actually,…

— Rafal Blechacz

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in…

— Stephen Sondheim

The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones' arrangement of "One Mint Julep."…

— Booker T. Jones

I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious,…

— Yael Naim

When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.

— Janelle Monae

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

— Lawrence Welk

Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played…

— Al Kooper

I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.

— Zaytoven

My parents were in the local church choir, and I used to go along and sing and play the organ at all the weddings…

— Dolores O'Riordan

“I would be an organ donor, but I’d much rather donate a piano.”

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Hank Williams