Eberhard Weber Quotes

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

I started playing music when I was really young.

I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.

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 think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

I studied violin when I was very young.

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

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

Singing and playing have always gone hand-in-hand with me. I love 'em both equally.

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

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

I started playing music at a pretty young age.

I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

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.

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?

My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

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 see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.