Cloris Leachman Quotes

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

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

I'm not really a pianist.

I'm not a great piano player.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

One of the great regrets of my life is that I don't play piano.

I started studying piano at the age of four.

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

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.

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.

The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.

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

Although I don't come from a musical background, I was given piano lessons along with my sisters, but I wasn't what you would call a good student. I tended to write songs rather than do scales.

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

I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

The piano is the instrument I can play the most.

I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.

I started at the piano at the age of 4.

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.

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.

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