Always Quote by Nita Strauss

In my world, before I knew about Eddie Van Halen, I was playing piano, and at that point in my teenage life, I thought…

— Lzzy Hale

Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a book to…

— Bob Seger

My dad played music so I was around it at a really young age.

— Shawna Thompson

I started listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young when I was 8 or 9 years old - I had siblings…

— Eliot Sumner

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.

— Kris Allen

I was a really camp child! In the 70s, an age of all these amazing musical subcultures, I was sitting in my living room…

— Zoe Ball

My dad was a musician, played on the road and played all of his life. And I grew up in a musical family. I…

— Rickey Medlocke

My earliest musical memory was getting to watch my dad play drums in a local band. He's a banker by trade, but a drummer…

— Charlie Worsham

My dad knew I was mad about music. While he worked as a barber he would hear songs on the radio and we'd have…

— Mick Hucknall

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

— Angel Olsen

One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny…

— Sufjan Stevens

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

— Daniel Radcliffe