Laura Mvula Quotes

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

My good fortune was that I was born into a home where Mum and Dad encouraged me to learn the piano.

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

I grew up playing the piano, but you know, as a rebellious child, I convinced myself that I hated it.

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.

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.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

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.

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

The way I learnt to play was to go out there and enjoy myself. I never thought I'd play professionally.

My mom says that she caught me one day in front of the TV watching opera. I was trying to sing back the opera. She saw that I really liked music, and so she put me in piano lessons when I was about three years old.

At 12 or 13, I picked up a guitar because my mother made me learn how to play.

I was kind of, I would say, even obsessed with music. I wanted to start learning piano when I was six years old, and after that, my parents were very supportive and they took me to several kinds of music lessons. So music filled all my childhood.

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

When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.

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 thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

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

I've always enjoyed singing and can't recall a time in my life where I wasn't singing. I'm most grateful for the strength I have in that department. I have a lot of bad habits on the guitar which limits my playing ability. But I get a little better each year.

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

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.