Ethan Canin Quotes

I came to music very young.

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

At 11, I went to live with my maternal nan and granddad temporarily, after my parents separated, and Nan would let me have a go on her piano. My grandparents were like something out of the Noel Coward play, 'This Happy Breed,' and it was magical to hear them sing music-hall songs.

Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.

I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

I'm a late bloomer in music.

I started playing mandolin when I was three or four years old because I was too small to be playing guitar. As I got older and more responsible with holding instruments, I was allowed to play my mom's guitar that she had.

I grew up playing the piano, but you know, as a rebellious child, I convinced myself that I hated it.

I grew up with parents who really encouraged me to listen to as much music as I could.

Growing up, for me, it was in a musical family, so my mum and her brothers and sisters always sang. Every time I tried to join their group when I was little, they were like, 'Ah, darling, you're not too good - just sit back and watch us.'

From a young age, I took an interest in the music and my mom noticed it.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

I've had a wonderful life with music.

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.