Henry Mancini Quotes

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

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 had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

Age isn't a barrier to playing the bass, and I've definitely improved over the years, although maybe I'm not as flash as I once was. But looking back, I can't imagine a life without a guitar.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish.

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

I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

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

When I was a kid, I played the piano for six years, and all my family are musicians.

I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.

My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.

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.

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.

I started with the piano-accordion and rebelled against it, but I could not afford piano lessons.

My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'

I was very fortunate to take piano lessons from a young age, and the only times that we were able to play on Steinways was at our recitals, which were really nerve-wracking. Partly because we got to play on a Steinway.

I've played the guitar since I was 12, I've played the piano since I was 15.

Every time I'd sing or play piano when I was a child, my dad would yell up from the basement, 'That's B-flat!'

I wanted to be known as a better musician more than anything.

My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.

I started playing the piano aged four in an effort to copy Grandpa, who was constantly showing off and entertaining us all, singing comic songs on his baby grand.

I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a child that there were people who played it so much better.