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Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

I studied classical music in high school.

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 grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today if I tried. I still enjoy that stuff, and I think I naturally gravitate towards the classical licks; in fact, I know that I do. I gravitate towards the classical licks that I heard by famous old composers.

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

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.

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

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 trumpet in school at an early age.

I've no real musical training, although I took some piano lessons a while ago.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

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

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

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.

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.

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

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 music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.