Band Quote by Gordon Lightfoot

If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.

— Cliff Martinez

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and…

— Renee Fleming

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

— Martin Gore

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

If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band…

— Isaac Hanson

My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my…

— Sam Shepard

I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music…

— Samuel Larsen

My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior…

— Miles Teller

I think my children are definitely musically inclined, and they show it, and they're exposed to a lot of it. And they're their own…

— Chris Cornell

In my household growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., music was the great communicator between my parents and me.

— Brian Tyree Henry

My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano…

— Colm Wilkinson

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

— Horace Walpole