Lapsley Quotes

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

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

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

I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

I never went to music school.

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

I've been doing music since sixth grade.

My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

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.

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

Music's been a huge passion of mine since I was really young. I started playing guitar when I was thirteen.

I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.

I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.

I first began with the recorder in our community music school. After that, I played horn and participated in the school orchestra.

My father started me off on the guitar, and we learned classical guitar together.