Julie Payette Quotes

I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

I think having musical training as a child was really, really important. I studied piano as a child. Piano is a great instrument to understand musical theory on. I think I have that in my brain somewhere.

I went to school to learn guitar, solfeggio, and harmony. I wanted to know more about music, how it works. I wanted to take voice lessons, too, and that's when I discovered what I could do with my voice. At the beginning, I thought I would do classical and pop, but then I learned that I really liked the classical music.

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

I'm not a trained musician.

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

My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

I'm not trained in music.

I was trained on piano - that was part of grade school and high school.

I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.

My dad was a really good classical guitarist. He took lessons with a student of Andre Segovia.

I started playing piano when I was eight, and I went on to study piano in school, so I have a background in classical piano and studied composition in school. Writing music came later.

I learnt everything to do with music in my own time.

I've never studied music.

My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I was studying classical guitar very seriously.

I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.