Neil Sedaka Quotes

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

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.

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 played classical as a kid.

I studied with Felix Blumenfeld, who had studied piano with Anton Rubinstein and composition with Tchaikovsky. Felix, my professor, was the right hand of Anton Rubinstein. Blumenfeld knew his playing by heart, from every angle.

I first started playing the violin at 6. And then at 7, it was piano. So from then it was just classical music like every day.

I got a classical piano training when I was little, and we also had music study lessons where we'd have to listen to a lot of classical music.

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.

If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.

No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.

My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

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

I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!

From childhood, I have been more of a musician than a singer. People close to me know how much effort I put into practising. Even when I am travelling, I have my tanpura on my iPhone.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

I'm basically a keyboard player, so if it's got a keyboard on it, I'll give it a shot. I played a lot of organ in the early days. I can make a few chords on guitar, but that's about it.

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.