Alex Lifeson Quotes

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.

My dad was a really good classical guitarist. He took lessons with a student of Andre Segovia.

I played piano, flute, and guitar.

When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

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.

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

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.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I love music so much; I've always played.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

I really don't know anything about music.

I got into rock music at thirteen, listening to Van Halen, learned how to play the electric guitar.

I went to school to learn guitar, solfeggio, and harmony. I wanted to know more about music, how it works. I wanted to take voice lessons, too, and that's when I discovered what I could do with my voice. At the beginning, I thought I would do classical and pop, but then I learned that I really liked the classical music.

I started playing music when I was about six and didn't discover Indian classical music until I was fifteen. So, essentially, I had a lot of catching up to do.

I started playing piano around the age of five and, you know, I fell in love with 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.

I love to play music. I'm terrible at it, but I love learning about it .

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.

My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.

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

I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.