Andre Rieu Quotes

My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.

My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years.

I started playing when I was 5. I'm from a family of musicians.

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

I started piano like my sisters. After one year or two, I didn't like it anymore. Then, because I like trumpet, I played the cornet. When you are 7, you can't play trumpet - you play cornet. And something didn't go well. The teacher was too hard. Too rough. Suddenly, there was this instrument, the flute, that I could immediately play.

My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark.

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.

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 began making music at the age of four. According to my mother, once I just sat down at the piano and played back a tune by ear. My parents were watching and said to each other, 'Maybe we should give him music lessons.'

I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.

At 12 or 13, I picked up a guitar because my mother made me learn how to play.

I played trumpet in school at an early age.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

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

I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until finally I got one that was big enough to make a proper sound.

I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified.

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

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

I started playing music at a pretty young age.