Attention Quote by Alexander Graham Bell

My father being a theatre person used to compose music for his plays. He noticed me singing one of his compositions at a young…

— Meghana Raj

I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet.

— Johnny Flynn

A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition.

— Vasily Smyslov

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from…

— Michael P. Anderson

My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to…

— Andre-Marie Ampere

I wanted to explore sound, rather than composition and form.

— Ashkan Kooshanejad

My main language was music, and my teacher was nature.

— Vangelis

Before I got the desired effect in my voice, I trained in classical music under my father for several years.

— Himesh Reshammiya

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

— Elizabeth McGovern

From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was…

— Athol Fugard

[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.

— Pauline Oliveros

I saw my father writing songs and he would include me in the process when I was little so that kind of sparked my…

— Pedro Capo