Louis Prima Quotes

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

My dad played a little bit of piano and guitar, but not that professionally. I saw him play, and I said, 'I want to play. I want to try this instrument.'

I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started with the piano when I was 4 but fell in love with the drums. My dad always has music playing.

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, 'Well, neither do I.' I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

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.

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

My sister plays piano, and my brother used to be on the drums. My dad sings; he's got a good voice.

I remember that I started playing brass - not so much because I had a calling but because I thought it looked cool.

I always loved music - it was always in the house - and my younger brother is musical, too.

Music and musical instruments were proximal to my life from very early on - I took piano lessons for a brief time, but then my dad had a guitar and when he was not playing it, I would pick it up and mess with it. He jokes that I used to complain that it hurt my fingers.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

There was always music playing in the house. I started singing at three, like my sisters did. When I was around four, we decided to put together a group and had so much fun with it.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

I always loved the guitar, from when I was quite little. My dad had a G banjo at the house that he played. When he had parties, my sisters always played piano, and my dad played banjo.

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