Adam Schlesinger Quotes

Ask about music growing up, I'll tell you I grew up playing classical music, and I didn't grow up in a musical household.

There's always been a piano around the house, and I've grown up around it. It's a massive part of my life and always has been.

Music is something I couldn't live without. My dad was into music, he played for pleasure - guitar, piano. I started off doing jazz, singing with a lot of fabulous musicians here in London before I went to the States. And I still take piano lessons every Wednesday.

My grandfather was an excellent harmonium player, and after him, I, too, trained myself and can play a few musical instruments well.

My dad was a professional musician; my mom played, too, but just for fun. All my siblings played. The house was full of music books, videos, albums. I guess it's not surprising that I ended up becoming a musician.

I've been classically trained in piano since I was little. My father was a pianist, so they started me early.

My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied piano as a kid. My musical background and upbringing was very much a mix.

My greatest influence came from my parents' love of classical music. We listened to a lot of arias and operas growing up.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

I grew up in a musical environment. My parents played music and had it playing on the radio. They brought me to a concert at the age of 5, the same age I started violin lessons.

I took piano lessons as a kid, and my daughter's played piano since before she started kindergarten, so classical piano is something I really love.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

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.

You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

I started playing when I was 5. I'm from a family of musicians.

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.

My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical.

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

I was nurtured to play music pretty much from birth.

I come from a big family of musicians, so I was lucky enough to grow up with guitars all around the house. Even though I didn't really know much at the time, my brother had a Les Paul Goldtop, and my dad always had this Fender or some bizarre Pedulla-Orsini guitar.

My dad played guitar, and so there were always guitars kicking around the house that I was never allowed to touch. My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.