Backgrounds Quote by Garth Greenwell

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I…

— June Jordan

I was born understanding the language of music.

— Julian Bream

I studied music from the time I was 5.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and…

— Renee Fleming

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

— James Vincent McMorrow

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 started officially learning music when I was 14. I learnt Hindustani classical.

— Shruti Haasan

School was very important to me ,and music was what kept me coming back.

— Darius Rucker

In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

— Bjork

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

— Vangelis

Music came first and I started to jam with people I couldn't communicate in their language. Then, because I could make friends thanks to…

— Hiromi

Music was always a huge part of me, but I always did it on the side. I didn't even take any music classes in…

— Daya