Eddie Van Halen Quotes

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

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

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.

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

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 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 studied piano for many years, and I still play. I'm a complete amateur, and I wouldn't consider myself very good at all, but I enjoy it.

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.

I was trained on piano - that was part of grade school and high school.

I ended up taking piano lessons at a really young age, I took, like, years of piano lessons, and I always loved to sing.

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

My dad was a fine pianist and he had a lot of great records and beautiful music.

My dad was a really good classical guitarist. He took lessons with a student of Andre Segovia.

I started playing music when I was about six and didn't discover Indian classical music until I was fifteen. So, essentially, I had a lot of catching up to do.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.

My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.