I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

— Suzi Quatro

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

— Mike Shinoda

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the…

— Monica Raymund

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

— Lari White

I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and…

— Barbara Kingsolver

My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with Bob Crosby's…

— Toni Tennille

Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract it.

— Bryce Dessner

I started playing classical music, and I still do. I think music ultimately is kind of on a theoretical level, is about collecting and…

— Eldar Djangirov

Ask about music growing up, I'll tell you I grew up playing classical music, and I didn't grow up in a musical household.

— Maggie Rogers

I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight…

— Evan Peters

I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There…

— Nina Simone

I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it.

— Julia Holter

In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.

— Richard Clayderman

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

— Eddie Van Halen

I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I…

— Janina Gavankar