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I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten. -- Alex Winston
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion. -- Ricky Jay
My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music. -- Wynton Marsalis
I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar, -- Brandy Clark
Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano. -- Woody Allen
So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting. -- June Allyson
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of the mirror and being silly, then suddenly I started making songs. -- Lykke Li
I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it. -- Mose Allison
The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons. -- Amiri Baraka
It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music. -- Michael Tilson Thomas
Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it. -- Mike Krzyzewski
Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper. -- Mary Lou Williams
Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldnt consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper. -- Mary Lou Williams
I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons. I was one of the chosen few to have a job and to walk through the curtain at Stax Records was just an amazing thing for me to do at age 14. -- Booker T. Jones
I never took a music lesson in my life, it just came naturally. -- Wynonna Judd
When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons. -- Jerome Isaac Friedman
I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. -- Bernie Worrell
Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons. -- Ernie Isley
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education. -- Lawrence Welk
I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it. -- Micky Dolenz
My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school. -- Lyle Lovett
I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition. -- Rohinton Mistry
I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen. -- Alex Winston
An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism. -- Daniel Barenboim
I took lessons since I was little; I used to pay for my own singing lessons and take myself. Just take the bus when I was a kid and go. But I'd been writing music for years, since the smallest age. -- Rebecca Ferguson
I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons. -- Jack Irons
I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons. -- Marvin Hamlisch
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. -- Brian Austin Green
A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working. -- Lisa Loeb
Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us. -- Phil Anselmo
We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions. -- Thomas Jefferson
I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music. -- Stephen Sondheim
At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got very interested in that. -- Paul Smith
It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time. -- Paul Smith
The importance of selecting music and sequencing songs - making one song merge into another song. In retrospect, those are the most important lessons I got from DJs. -- Hans-Peter LindstrÃ¸m

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