William Eggleston Quotes

I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.

My dad played music so I was around it at a really young age.

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.

I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that.

I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old 'cause my folks tried to get me away from the gramophone. And I just - I lived for music since I could think. And they got me piano lessons. So by the time I was 13, I was quite an accomplished piano player and musician.

Music and musical instruments were proximal to my life from very early on - I took piano lessons for a brief time, but then my dad had a guitar and when he was not playing it, I would pick it up and mess with it. He jokes that I used to complain that it hurt my fingers.

I love playing the piano. I really want to start taking lessons but need to find the time.

I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.

I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

I studied piano for seven years and play for my own enjoyment.

Banging on the piano while my grandmother was watching me. I'd run up to her and ask: 'How was that, Grandma?' And she'd say, 'That was beautiful, baby!' And I'd run back to the piano and play some more. I'm sure that's why I still play today, because I was encouraged from such a young age, 2 or 3.

For me, I guess music has always been the through-line. You know, I played guitar from a really young age, and my dad played, and my cousin gave me a drum kit when I was 13, and I played bass guitar, so, you know, it was definitely always in the house.

When I attained my seventh year, my father, whose ear was unmusical but who was nevertheless passionately fond of music, gave me my elementary lessons on the violin; in a very few months, I was able to play all manner of compositions at sight.

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

I wanted to play the piano.

My dad played a little bit of piano and guitar, but not that professionally. I saw him play, and I said, 'I want to play. I want to try this instrument.'

It seems like I've always been singing, at least since I was 5.

At a young age, I was introduced to Joni Mitchell by my mum. My dad was into progressive rock.