I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort…

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

— Eddie Van Halen

My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens and I…

— Steve Hackett

I took classical music very seriously as a kid.

— Laufey

I got a classical piano training when I was little, and we also had music study lessons where we'd have to listen to a…

— Kerli

I went through eight years of classical piano lessons without being able to read notes. I only have to hear a melody to be…

— Liam Howlett

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

— Colin Greenwood

The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.

— Charlotte Caffey

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

— Suzi Quatro

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

— Mike Shinoda

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

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

— Richard Clayderman

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