I did a little bit of theater when I was in high school…

I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement.…

— Sophia Bush

I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer theater. I…

— Bo Burnham

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

— Noel Redding

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound. It's not trying to replace a band, per se.…

— Andrew Bird

I started playing violin because I was fascinated by how violin players could play so fast. I would buy their cassettes, and learn different…

— Toby Lightman

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

— Andrew Bird

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

— Paul Desmond

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

— Paul Desmond

I was actually the head of the violin after-school club. And then I was also the head of the dance club, the popping club.…

— Henry Lau

Well, since I'm six years old, I've been playing the violin, the piano, I've been singing. It's always been a dream of mine, but…

— Paris Hilton

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

— Itzhak Perlman

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

— Andy Summers

I started playing the violin at age 3, and I was very fortunate because there were people who heard me who were influential in…

— Phil Ramone

I started playing violin when I was about five years old and I learned to read a little bit of music, but that's all…

— Mura Masa

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.

— Henry Lau