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

My mother is a retired music teacher. She taught me in high school, and she would take us and put us in these madrigal groups. We would go to a museum or whatever and just perform.

My training has been in Hindustani classical, and I have done a six-week course in English vocals at Berklee. The holistic learning has helped me a lot.

My mother has learnt classical singing from renowned artiste Druba Ghosh at Sangeet Mahabharati, a music school. During my vacations, my father would sent me to this same school.

When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.

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.

Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.

I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'

I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.

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

I think every singer should get a formal training in music.

I have always wanted to become a musician and a singer.

I learnt everything to do with music in my own time.

I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up the guitar on my 20th birthday.