Irina Shayk Quotes

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.

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.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life.

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude for Debussy and Ravel.

There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.

I studied piano for seven years and play for my own enjoyment.

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

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 mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

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 love doing concert 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.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.

I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

I love music; it's my passion.

In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.