Quotes About Music

Before I got into music, I studied sport and used to run for my county.

I studied and sang lot of jazz when I was growing up. I think that plays a little bit into some of the things I do vocally, notes that I pick in chords.

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

The Soviet Union had only one party. You couldn't express yourself freely; you couldn't admit belief in God. And yet this terrible regime understood that human beings have to express themselves, through music, even at a bad level. All kids studied music automatically, just as they did maths or languages or sport.

I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

I've studied classical singing, but not to a great extent.

I studied music; I studied theater. I went to school for it, so I kind of treat it in that manner, that whether or not I can hang out, I've always been the one to go in my room and chill.

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

I've forgotten a lot of things. I've forgotten how to play the piano and how to speak Arabic, though I studied it for two years.

When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and if I'd devoted myself to it, I could have been. But it would have been too much work and a very lonely life.

I taught myself until I was about 16. And then I studied classical guitar with some teachers.

I'm very obsessed with pop culture of the mid-century and it goes hand-in-hand with the music that I studied in school.

I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to play that stuff.

I studied hard and completed my engineering. And I also pursued music that was my passion.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

I studied music formally. I was probably less formal about my study of acting than anything.

What's important is that people realize that I can't be put into a box musically. I've studied all forms of music; I know probably more Jay-Z songs than the biggest Jay-Z fan. I've studied R. Kelly to the Isley Brothers to Stevie Wonder to Sting and Sade. You don't have one personality every day. You don't have one mood.

I hate how things must be classified. How this is applied to musicians implies that they somehow contrive their products and have studied the demographics of the audience.

I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.