Buttons Quote by Stephen Sondheim

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 remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious,…

— Yael Naim

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

— Lawrence Welk

My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical family, actually,…

— Rafal Blechacz

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

— Zaytoven

I started playing on my grandmother's organ at a really young age. I learned 'Chopsticks' and that kind of thing, but I didn't really…

— Jordan Fisher

Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played…

— Al Kooper

We really were a very musical family. In spite of the fact that we were so poor when I was a youngster that supper…

— Lawrence Welk

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

— Janelle Monae

I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a…

— Bobby McFerrin

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got…

— Tod Machover