Luciano Pavarotti Quotes

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

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.

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

My parents are both musicians and made sure we all played music. My brothers and sisters all play instruments, so we'll get together whenever we can and play. We play a lot of classical music - you know, the good stuff.

I love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so I also love rock.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.

The training at Juilliard School is classical training, and it really makes one very versatile.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.

You know I'm a bit of a dag because I listen to classical music. I recently bought myself an iPod and downloaded every piece of classical music that I had access to onto that.

Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life.

My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

There are so many wonderful, wonderful musicians in the world, I cannot possibly make a distinction between the fact that they might play classical music, or bluegrass, or Irish traditional, or Indian music.

In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.