Chris Martin Quotes

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and if I'd devoted myself to it, I could have been. But it would have been too much work and a very lonely life.

I don't really have music goals. It's just a huge field I want to dedicate my life to.

At one point, I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

My training in music has been very eclectic - as first a flute player from classical chamber music to jazz, Greek, Brazilian and African music to contemporary concert music.

I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet.

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

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

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 played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

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

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

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

It started when I was eight years old. I first heard the cello on the radio, and I loved the sound. It was such a magical, beautiful sound. I dedicated my entire childhood to cello, practising like crazy.

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.