Alexandre Desplat Quotes

I've always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music teacher about different instruments we could play, and I said I wanted to play the trumpet right away. It was easy: it just had three valves.

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

I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.

My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.

My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.

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

I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until finally I got one that was big enough to make a proper sound.

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.

My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years.

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 played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.

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

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

I didn't play a lot of bass as a kid, but I sang it.

When I was a kid, I had a xylophone, and I thought that was the instrument I wanted to play. I didn't realize it was a toy.

I started playing mandolin when I was three or four years old because I was too small to be playing guitar. As I got older and more responsible with holding instruments, I was allowed to play my mom's guitar that she had.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.

My mom took my sister and I to music classes. We used to hate practising as kids but my grandma used to make it fun by playing musical games with us.

I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

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

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

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