Leon Russell Quotes

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

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.

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.

If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.

I played in orchestras all through high school and taught myself how to play guitar.

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

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.

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.

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

My parents are both musicians and made sure we all played music. My brothers and sisters all play instruments, so we'll get together whenever we can and play. We play a lot of classical music - you know, the good stuff.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

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 trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

I'm a struggling guitar player.

I'm a musical person, and that's what I want my life to be about.

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.