Music Training Quotes

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

I learned tabla for three years when in school, then started picking up the basics of the acoustic guitar when in college.

I started playing piano and guitar when I was in elementary school, and then I was finally like, 'I want to sing.' So I started taking voice lessons and decided I wanted to go to an art school and take music seriously.

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.

My father was the artistic one. At a very young age, my father realised I had a strong voice and made me learn Hindustani vocal. I was five. I have Dad to thank for introducing me to the finer things in life.

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.

'The X Factor' is like music camp. It's invaluable what in a short amount of time 'The X Factor' can do to an artist and a person's career. It can make them a superstar overnight.

I went to this vocal coach, Ron Anderson, who has worked with Axl Rose and Chris Cornell, to train my voice and learn a whole new way of singing.

I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started playing in groups I did a silly thing and dropped it. It's great if you can write things down.

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

I started at the piano at the age of 4.

My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, who taught my mum, who, in turn, was my first teacher. Later I would travel almost 70 kms to the nearest town, Kota, to learn music from my guru Mahesh Sharmaji, who was also the principal of the music college there.

I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson.

I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.

I now have plans to create a school for singers in Vienna, and I would love to found one in the Middle East, too, if possible.

I never went to music school.

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.

I never took any vocal training.

I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.