Business Quote by Summer Glau

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and…

— Kurt Masur

I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high…

— Arthur Godfrey

If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

— Neil Sedaka

I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish…

— Jack Bruce

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

When I was young, I was being pushed, against my will, towards becoming a classical musician. I had music scholarships; I had to play…

— Johnny Flynn

In my youth I wanted to be a concert violinist.

— Lorne Greene

I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.

— Bebe Rexha

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I…

— Tori Amos

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

— Dido Armstrong

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting…

— Gunther Schuller