Paul Gilbert Quotes

My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.

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 had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.

I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.

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

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

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.

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 started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

When I was five I had violin lessons.

I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.

I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

I started playing music at a pretty young age.

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 started playing music when I was really young.

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.