Anton Seidl Quotes

I actually don't like playing the piano or conducting the orchestra.

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

I am musical. I play guitar.

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.

As far as music is concerned, I played music for a very long time, so I have a background in that.

I played in orchestras all through high school and taught myself how to play guitar.

I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to play that stuff.

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.

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

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

My first instrument was a little blue ukele.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although it's my favorite.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

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.

I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs.

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

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