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LANA DEL REY I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.
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ROSE MCIVER She was a very, very religious person. She played piano and organ at her church at one time.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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ROWAN ATKINSON I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free....
CARLA BLEY![]()
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FABRICIO OBERTO
My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education... DWIGHT YOAKAM Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any ...
ALAN JACKSON My mother doesn't really embarrass me. Even when I was young. She understands my career.
BOW WOW My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't th...
EDWARD P. JONES I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons...
JOHN GOKONGWEI I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y...
CHARLIE EBERSOL
I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into th... BEBE REXHA
Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but... JOHN SULSTON I was very self-conscious about my body from a young age. At school, I played football and netball a...
BRYONY SHAW
I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a... AARON PAUL
My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music... RUBY ROSE My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know ...
LUPITA NYONG'O I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing...
RONALDINHO Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throw...
MELISSA MCCARTHY Growing up, I think the competition at a young age with the programs here, I was able to compete wit...
ABDUL HODGE
I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I st... MANDY MOORE My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still us...
CHUCK CLOSE My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing ...
CARRIE MAE WEEMS
I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or no... B. F. SKINNER I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz;...
QUENTIN BRYCE
When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of... MERYL STREEP
I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for... NATE ROBINSON
All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a ... DOLLY PARTON I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for m...
FLUME
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ...
FRANK GEHRY
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutel... BURT BACHARACH My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a go...
MAX VON SYDOW
I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance. FRANK CARSON When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have act...
DAVID SUCHET I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massi...
EDWARD CAREY My family's just really into the sport. My sister played, my mom played and my dad played baseball. ...
LAUREN GIBSON My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. Sh...
ALEXANDER CHEE I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday ...
BETH MOORE My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was g...
MICHAEL HANEKE I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano te...
AUDRA MCDONALD I was always around volleyball since I was very young because my sister played in grade school and m...
JAY MERGENTHALER
My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher edu... GERTRUDE B. ELION
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ... ALAN FURST
As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial ... JACKIE CHAN I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always kn...
ALEX WINSTON Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together,...
CAROLINE CORR
My age is very insignificant to me. I don't think about it, but the world does. The world likes ... AURORA
My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a ve... SAM SHEPARD At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a sing...
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE
I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I ... PAUL WALKER I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.
ERIK HASSLE I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don...
IAN AXEL I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother...
URSULA BURNS
I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me... BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY Both my father and grandfather were entrepreneurs, in Cleveland. I was exposed to startups and buyou...
JIM KUNEVICIUS My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life...
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music...
ELLIOTT CARTER
When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing a... NILE RODGERS
In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Wh... LADY GAGA
When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I ... LANA DEL REY I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.
ELLIOTT YAMIN
My brother was scouted for a commercial when he was three, and it was just because he could speak cl... ROSE MCIVER She was a very, very religious person. She played piano and organ at her church at one time.
CONRAD COLEMAN My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethio...
LUCA GUADAGNINO
But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was M... TONY KUSHNER
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... EDMUND WHITE
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. MARK TWAIN
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. MARK TWAIN I think at a young age, there were a couple major catastrophes that happened in her life that very e...
MATT ANDERSON I think at a young age, there were a couple major catastrophes that happened in her life that very e...
MATT ANDERSON
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some... WARREN BEATTY The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organ...
KURT MASUR I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great s...
OMAR SY I didn't date my wife in high school, but she was definitely by far the coolest woman there. She...
ERIC MABIUS My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whethe...
NATE PARKER
I was the product of very young parents, and they had wild ways. My mother was in a punk band. Rebel... HOLLY COMBS
My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actuall... PETER C. DOHERTY My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
KATE BUSH
My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and... EMERIL LAGASSE I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,...
ERIC DICKERSON
My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my fat... STEVE JOBS
When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never v... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other ...
ANDY DALY I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird rec...
IAN ANTHONY DALE
I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. ... BAT FOR LASHES It feels really great. I actually played against her in high school, so it felt really good to be ab...
JENNA GOLDEN
My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age ... MATTHEW MODINE For her to be able to do that at such a young age, she has such potential to become way bigger in th...
JANICE WILLIAMS I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky ...
REBECCA WELLS
My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done... DAVID CHANG
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... TRACY MORGAN
No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates ... ROWAN ATKINSON I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free....
CARLA BLEY
My father left when I was really young, but he's still living. There are things I wish I'd s... SARAH SHAHI I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don...
TIM DEKAY I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I w...
DEV HYNES
My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it... MAYA ANGELOU The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was g...
ADEPERO ODUYE
I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes h... KATHLEEN HANNA I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and ...
KATE BUSH She is not only a teacher to us, she is a true friend. I hope to have her for the rest of my high sc...
BRITTANY SMITH
I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious. I stayed for lunch for extra tu... ANGELA DUCKWORTH
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