Belts Quote by Bjork

For twelve years I studied and worked at them every day, and I was nearly 25 before I had the courage to play one…

— Pablo Casals

I did a lot of choral music in high school, and that was kind of my primary, stable outlet for music because I didn't…

— Autre Ne Veut

When I was growing up, there were a few musicians who would have regular gigs at restaurants, and I always thought it was so…

— Borns

I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I was 14.

— Summer Glau

In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working…

— Imelda May

I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my…

— Laura Mvula

As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was a very…

— Nina Simone

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a…

— Benjamin Carson

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest

— James Levine

I wanted to do music at school but they discouraged it. If you did music you couldn't do technical drawing, which meant you couldn't…

— Paul Young

Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo…

— Anne Akiko Meyers

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