Actually Quote by Lyle Lovett

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.

— Pinetop Perkins

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.

— Evelyn Glennie

I was trained on piano - that was part of grade school and high school.

— Stana Katic

My mother is a pianist and vocalist. When I was 15, I was playing guitar in her Dell Graham Trio.

— Larry Graham

“My father referred to it as "the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers." He made me play it when I was getting too…

— Patrick Rothfuss

When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to…

— John Otto

I've been doing music since sixth grade.

— Iman Shumpert

I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.

— Ewan McGregor

I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to…

— Leon Russell

We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid...it had…

— Jorma Kaukonen

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

— David Gilmour

I was performing from the age of three.

— Jennifer Ellison