Anthony Hopkins Quotes

I started playing music at a pretty young age.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

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

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

Music is such a big part of my life.

We all like music in my family, but I'm the only one who's made it my life.

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!

My family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life.

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

I grew up playing music, ever since I was 10 years old.

Eventually, my dad bought me a guitar for Christmas, and then I just went from there, man. I bought a drum kit a few years later and bought a bass, started producing, started singing.

During college, I didn't really have an interest in what I was studying. It was during college that I first stumbled into forming an underground band where I was the lead vocalist. I had always had an ear for music, but nothing more than that. And that good ear of mine led me to learn and play a lot of instruments while in college.

We have started to make music at age seven. That was a hard work.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

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.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.