Lily Allen Quotes

Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.

I do have musical background; I sing.

When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

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

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

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 grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.

I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college.

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.

I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I don't know if that counts as studying. I didn't study jazz. I was supposed to.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

I never went to music school.

I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.