Church Quote by Rafal Blechacz

Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all us kids…

— Michael Franti

I played for my first church service when I was nine years old. I was sufficiently tall to be able to reach the pedals.…

— Barbara Harbach

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him.…

— Billy Preston

I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.

— Zaytoven

My earliest memories are listening to my Grandmother playing the piano at our house as I jumped up and down on the couch. She…

— James Newton Howard

My earliest memories have to do with music.

— Jessie Reyez

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in…

— Stephen Sondheim

My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles and organizations,…

— Gunther Schuller

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano…

— Jason Robert Brown

When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.

— Janelle Monae

I should mention that I took piano lessons beginning when I was four. My mother was my first teacher, and it was a wonderful…

— Barbara Harbach

My parents were in the local church choir, and I used to go along and sing and play the organ at all the weddings…

— Dolores O'Riordan