Janina Gavankar Quotes

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

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 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 can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.

I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.

I've never known how to read music in my life.

I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

The piano is the instrument I can play the most.

I know how to read music, watching my mom and listening to Mom play music.

When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

I got a classical piano training when I was little, and we also had music study lessons where we'd have to listen to a lot of classical music.

I play a very streamlined piano.

I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it.

Studying music involves a lot of mathematics and a lot of exercises of memory. Or you've got to be able to be like somebody, to play like somebody, to play Mozart's music the way he played it and how he intended it. You've got to make it perfect, and that's not what I want to do. Although it is beautiful.

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think.

I'm an interpreter of music.