Age Quote by Audra McDonald

I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a saxophone hobbyist…

— Gerard Cox

I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old 'cause my folks tried to get me away from the gramophone. And I…

— Hugh Masekela

When I was a kid, I played the piano for six years, and all my family are musicians.

— Tina Maze

I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a career in…

— Paul Haslinger

I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life.

— Dianne Reeves

I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in my family.…

— Eric Hutchinson

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano…

— Jason Robert Brown

I started playing piano when I was eight, and I went on to study piano in school, so I have a background in classical…

— Julia Holter

I was a piano performance major at USC. I left before I graduated because I realized at some point I wasn't going to be…

— James Newton Howard

My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.

— Jeanine Tesori

My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is…

— Laura Allen

My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied piano as a kid. My musical background and…

— Phillipa Soo