Music Quotes

When I was a kid, I was more interested in beating up boys on the playground than practicing music.

Ellen Hollman
- Up
- Music
I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

Lianne La Havas
- Music

The group of guys I came up with in the 1990s were very innovative. I remember some of the older guys were complaining about how the music had changed, and they were being left behind. I didn't want to be one of those guys who sat around and complained because they weren't growing and evolving.

Tracy Lawrence
- Up
- Remember
- Growing
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

Lawrence Welk
- People
- Family
- Business
The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn't know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female... whatever. I'd hear melodies and things and got intrigued on that level.

Robert Palmer
- Up
- Black
- Growing
I knew from the start that I wanted my life to be about music. I taught myself the notes of the piano aged three, and then I spent the next few years deconstructing chords to figure out how to play them. At 11, I researched online the sort of music school I wanted to attend, printed out the details, and handed them to my parents.

Ella Henderson
- Life
- School
- Parents
Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

James Black
- Music
- School
- Study
I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I loved reading.

Amanda Marshall
- Up
- Reading
- Theatre