John Zorn Quotes

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

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

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

I started playing violin when I was about five years old and I learned to read a little bit of music, but that's all been long, long forgotten! I actually quit violin to teach myself guitar and just went from there.

I played saxophone for a while when I was a kid.

I played trumpet in school at an early age.

I played in orchestras all through high school and taught myself how to play guitar.

I can play the piano. I started off with lessons, and then, as we always had a piano in the house, I would play around and became quite good.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

I've actually been playing music ever since I was a young a kid. I got my first guitar when I was about 7 or 8 years old, so I've always been doing music.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

I've been playing since I was eight years old.

In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.