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“I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.”

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Author:Geddy Lee

“I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.”

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Author:Rohinton Mistry

“I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.”

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Author:Tom Verlaine

“There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.”

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Author:Ernie Isley

“I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.”

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Author:Billy Joel

“The work-life balance is a harsh reality for so many women, who are forced every day to make impossible choices. Do they take their kids to the doctor...and risk getting fired? Do they work weekends so they can afford to send their kids to better childcare...even though it means even less time with their families? Do they take another shift at work, so they can pay for piano lessons for their kids...even though it means they have to stop volunteering for the PTA? It just shouldn't be this difficult to raise healthy families.”

“My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs.”

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Author:Josephine de La Baume

“My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons... It wasn't forced on me. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. I never went through a period where I didn't want to do it.”

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Author:John Legend

“I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.”

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Author:Eddie Van Halen

“I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then I've always had to take piano lessons, too.”

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Author:Son Lux

“Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.”

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Author:Steve Harvey

“I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.”

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Author:Andrew Hollander

“I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in my family. My grandma was a professional violin player and my parents first met when my dad was giving my mom guitar lessons.”

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Author:Eric Hutchinson

“I became really creative around the time I started understanding that people could be creative with music and that that was allowed. I stated taking piano lessons at age five, but I never did what my piano teacher told me to do. I would just do whatever I wanted.”

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Author:Michael Angelakos

“I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a saxophone hobbyist who grew up in England during the heyday of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott. I started taking piano lessons from my Mom, but it's too easy to slack off with your parent, so she passed me on to a friend of hers, where I got more motivated to play music by playing pop hits and TV themes. I did some classical training, but I was always more into the really thematic stuff.”

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Author:Gerard Cox

“I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did voice training and piano lessons, and while I was a decent musician, it didn't seem like enough for me. I felt like I wanted to make more than just music.”

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Author:Adria Petty

“The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things. And all of a sudden, not just business thrives, but small business thrives.”

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Author:Nick Hanauer

“I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.”

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Author:Conor Maynard

“Some people do piano lessons after school; I do movies.”

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Author:Elle Fanning

“I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.”

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Author:Stephen Sondheim

“My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.”

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Author:John Legend

“The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.”

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Author:Andrew W.K.

“I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an inspiration. I took piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels for 10 years.”

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Author:Lara Fabian

“It was in Shizuoka, where my home was. I first attended this school when I was five years old. I also attended a regular elementary school, and I was taking piano lessons with a local teacher. I began to study composition at the Yamaha school. And I continued to study there until the age of 15.”

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Author:Hiromi

“I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a career in music. I studied classical music, and my instruments were guitar and piano. I played keyboards in bands, and after high school I went to Vienna to study at the Academy of Music. I also became a session player, which culminated in my work with Tangerine Dream.”

“I went through eight years of classical piano lessons without being able to read notes. I only have to hear a melody to be able to play it. It used to freak my piano teacher out when he finally noticed that notes don't make any sense to me and that I played by ear.”

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Author:Liam Howlett

“I took piano lessons when I was younger and I've been trying to learn how to play the guitar recently. I'd really like to learn how to play the drums. They're a lot of fun and they require a lot of focus.”

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Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to pianos and musical instruments. Whenever we went to a friend's house, I vaguely recall climbing up on the piano, plunking on it, and trying to figure it out. So my parents figured I was interested and asked me if I wanted to take piano lessons. I said sure.”

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Author:Vienna Teng

“My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.”

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Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“I learned to play piano on my own and my parents thought "Oh it would be a good thing for you take piano lessons. That's the way you really need to learn to play the piano."”

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Author:Colin Munroe

“At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got very interested in that.”

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Author:Paul Smith

“At one point I had dreams of being in the school band, but I didn't play an instrument that qualified me, and that was a problem. I always had fantasies to be part of that, but I did take my piano lessons quite seriously.”

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Author:Paul Smith

“It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time.”

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Author:Paul Smith

“My Dad played the trombone and I think my Mom played the piano for about two years. It is very self-driven. They pushed me to do piano lessons, but they were never forceful about anything. They never pushed me to sing or anything, it was something that I did myself.”

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Author:Thomston

“I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a voice just came to me and said, go play the piano in the church.”

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Author:Sharon Jones

“By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.”

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Author:Nina Simone

“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.”

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Author:Tom Lehrer

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

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“I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.”

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Author:Mike Shinoda

“When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very good at it. I have big, sort of awkward hands. It's hard to keep going when you don't get any better.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“When you play, never mind who listens to you.”

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“I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.”

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Author:Eddie Van Halen

“My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.”

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Author:Chris Daughtry

“My mother wanted me to take piano lessons, but I never wanted to, because that is something you have to learn, like you have to learn to type, and to me, that has nothing to do with music.”

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Author:Ryo Kawasaki

“I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good enough to make that decision, and she was right. I remember at the time I was shocked. I did not like that my mother said those things to me. But when I got a chance to play with Yo-Yo Ma or more recently with Aretha Franklin, I thought, I'm really glad she said what she did.”

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Author:Condoleezza Rice

“I can't really remember my life without movies... [Growing up in Hollywood] is no different really. I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.”

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Author:Elle Fanning

“Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?”

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Author:Dannii Minogue

“My mother always wanted to be in show business, but her parents discouraged her. So when I started performing for the mirror she enrolled me in dancing, singing and piano lessons.”

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Author:Irene Cara

“I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons”

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Author:Marvin Hamlisch

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