Jane McDonald Quotes

You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

I'm so jealous of my friends who came from these super musical households where they were learning piano at three years old. My parents didn't really play loads of music around the house. We had the radio, but they weren't teaching me about music.

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

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

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.

I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old 'cause my folks tried to get me away from the gramophone. And I just - I lived for music since I could think. And they got me piano lessons. So by the time I was 13, I was quite an accomplished piano player and musician.

If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.

I started at the piano at the age of 4.

My brother and I played music together, and we all liked to show off. But I wasn't a particularly musical kid. I did piano lessons and quit. I got kicked out of the choir.

There was a substantial vinyl collection in my home, and my mom played piano. We, the children, were enrolled in piano lessons very early on.

My mother started me on the piano when I was 3 years old.

I had piano lessons when I was five or six years old, so my mom got me this little keyboard in my room. And then it progressed from that to classical guitar and drums and oboe.

My mom was in a band for over 30 years, and my brother, sister, and I start taking classical piano lessons when we were three. She's really the reason why I'm still playing piano - she made me practice every day before school and made it a priority even when we didn't necessarily want it to be.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored. I couldn't tell my left hand from my right back then!

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.