James Newton Howard Quotes

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 started at the piano at the age of 4.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

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 grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I think having musical training as a child was really, really important. I studied piano as a child. Piano is a great instrument to understand musical theory on. I think I have that in my brain somewhere.

I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

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

I've played piano since I was probably six or seven, but I stopped when I was about 13, and I couldn't be bothered to do the exams or learn my scales.

I had 10 years of lessons at the conservatory in Belgium, studying classical music. I learned how to sing, play the piano, and all the theory that I needed. By the time I left, I had confidence in my skills, and I knew that the experience had prepared me to become a real professional.

I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it.

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

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

I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.

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

I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.

I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

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

I played classical as a kid.

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

I took piano lessons and dancing lessons. I was very good at piano.