Lee Ritenour Quotes

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

I was nurtured to play music pretty much from birth.

Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.

I'm a late bloomer in music.

Every time I'd sing or play piano when I was a child, my dad would yell up from the basement, 'That's B-flat!'

I came to music very young.

My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

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

I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

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

Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.

There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

My parents did not have any interest in music.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.

Although I don't come from a musical background, I was given piano lessons along with my sisters, but I wasn't what you would call a good student. I tended to write songs rather than do scales.