Madhura Naik Quotes

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.

My training has been in Hindustani classical, and I have done a six-week course in English vocals at Berklee. The holistic learning has helped me a lot.

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 mother, who is a Carnatic musician, started a school for children when I was around three, and I grew up listening to her teaching students.

I got into cello in the fourth grade, and I played that for years. I adored playing it. I got an opera coach when I was 12 because I really wanted to learn how to sing properly. The only proper way to sing, I thought at that age, was opera.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I got a lot of knowledge about everything from classical music to jazz to musicals.

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.

My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.

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

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 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.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

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 Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.

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

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

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

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

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

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.

My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.

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