Family Quote by Lawrence Welk

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

— Lawrence Welk

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Everyone played a bit of guitar in our family.

— Malcolm Young

We had a bunch of instruments around the house. Like, I played different instruments, trumpet, bass, drums, piano, all that, but whatever I could…

— Trombone Shorty

I was one of six children, brought up by my mother in Swindon after my father died. We had all we needed - food…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

There was always music in our house and my mum used to play the piano in a pub, so we were a fairly musical…

— David Essex

My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My,…

— Peter Tosh

Our parents were musicians.

— Caroline Corr

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 for my first church service when I was nine years old. I was sufficiently tall to be able to reach the pedals.…

— Barbara Harbach

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

— Janelle Monae

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of…

— Madonna Ciccone