Grandmother Quote by Phillipa Soo

My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play,…

— Peter C. Doherty

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

— Carly Simon

I've been classically trained in piano since I was little. My father was a pianist, so they started me early.

— Beth Phoenix

I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age…

— 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

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music…

— Sara Zarr

My dad was a fine pianist and he had a lot of great records and beautiful music.

— Allan Holdsworth

My father was a very big musical influence on me. He was a trumpet player. And that's what I started with. Then, when I…

— David Bryan

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

— Carla Bruni

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

— Dianne Reeves

My parents loved music, but they weren't musicians. So my musical training as a young kid was limited to piano lessons. I was not…

— Michael Giacchino

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.

— Jeff Buckley