Flea Quotes

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

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.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music.

I started homeschooling when I was 13. I wasn't really doing the social media thing yet; I didn't have any fans, but I knew that public school wasn't the place for me. It was draining my creativity, and so both my parents supported me in being homeschooled, and they really gave me a chance to focus on getting good at guitar.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

When people lose faith in a system as they have in the public school system, they no longer want to support it.

Music has always been part of my family's life. My brother, sister, and I all have the same ability to pick up an instrument and play.

My dad would take me downtown, and I'd stand backstage and watch him in the vaudeville pit band. I was 6 or 7. He was a musician, a band leader, a wonderful clarinetist and saxophone player.

At the age of 11, I started composing and my first composition was sung by my father.

Since I was a little child, I always wanted to do music. That was my passion.

I can't remember when I didn't have an instrument around.

My grandfather is a blues musician.

There was an old acoustic in the house that my mother had given me for my fifth birthday. I took it off the wall and started jamming. I was seven years old at the time.

I wasn't very good at studies but was into a lot of extra-curricular activities. I used to play the keyboard and bass guitar in my school band and went on to study keyboard from Trinity College, London.

I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.

When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set.

We play the instruments we love.

I used to play the drums when I was, like, 5 through 10.

My earliest memory of music has to be watching my mother play the santoor.