Joshua Bell Quotes

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 family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life.

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

I started playing music at a pretty young age.

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.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

I've always been into music. My mom and dad used to always play music in the house.

Ask about music growing up, I'll tell you I grew up playing classical music, and I didn't grow up in a musical household.

My greatest influence came from my parents' love of classical music. We listened to a lot of arias and operas growing up.

I've been doing music since sixth grade.

I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful.

I love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so I also love rock.

I started playing music when I was really young.

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

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

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.

While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.

I grew up playing music, ever since I was 10 years old.

I first started playing the violin at 6. And then at 7, it was piano. So from then it was just classical music like every day.

I grew up in a musical atmosphere at home.

Influences at home, including classical music, were not all specifically jazz, but the family radio was always on... So there was always some connection to American culture, to American music.

I've been playing and singing music since I was three or four years old. I was playing guitar, playing the piano.

I started playing piano around the age of five and, you know, I fell in love with music.

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.