John Mayall Quotes

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

As far as music is concerned, I played music for a very long time, so I have a background in that.

I've no real musical training, although I took some piano lessons a while ago.

I play the piano, but I'm not classically trained.

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

I am musical. I play guitar.

I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.

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.

Music isn't only a profession.

I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on the radio, but they played it on their piano. Everybody learned how to read music and how to play.

I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude for Debussy and Ravel.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

But it's funny, I really was quite introverted as a child. I just liked music, so mum and dad bought me a piano when I was seven - I actually got up to Grade Seven at the London College of Music on piano.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

I started studying piano at the age of four.

I've played piano since I was 4 years old, and I've always loved songs by J. S. Bach.

I've never studied music.

At 13 I taught myself piano from an old song book, and Joni Mitchell's 'Both Sides Now' was the first song I learned.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

I can play the piano. I started off with lessons, and then, as we always had a piano in the house, I would play around and became quite good.

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