Church Quote by Lizz Wright

I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12.

— Robert Glasper

By the time I was 17, I was in a band, writing songs and playing solo piano at weekends, in pubs or at weddings.

— Chesney Hawkes

I was reared in the church from the age of three. I've played piano since I was three. I performed at revivals and for…

— Nina Simone

My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.

— Gordon Lightfoot

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at…

— Katy Perry

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

— Ernie Isley

My dad died in 1980, and I found out afterwards from mum that my piano lessons, which cost £2 a week, took up nearly…

— Rick Wakeman

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy…

— Al Jarreau

I didn't start playing piano until I was 18.

— George Winston

There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was cool -…

— Laura Mvula

You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my…

— John Legend

I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.

— Jonathan Dimbleby