Shankar Mahadevan Quotes

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

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

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.

We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him.

I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.

I consider myself a musician. I like to play everything.

Music has always been my passion.

Music is my passion.

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

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

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

My parents were both very musically inclined, they were both songwriters and musicians, so we grew up in the house singing music together, and R&B had a huge strong arm in the foundation of my career.

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.

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

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 studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?

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'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.