Ivan Reitman Quotes

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

I've spent my life playing music.

My mother was an opera singer and my father is a clarinet player, composer and conductor.

I've been making music since age five.

In 2014, I composed the music for 'Jai Ho' which premiered in Dubai and I was a 23-year-old kid back then.

I'm very eclectic in what I like and what I listen to. But my favorite musical ever is "The Sound of Music." That was actually one that inspired me to sing.

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've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

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 with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

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

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.

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.

We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.

I started playing when I was 5. I'm from a family of musicians.

I've been playing music since I was born.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.