Quotes About Learning

I took piano lessons and dancing lessons. I was very good at piano.

I've no real musical training, although I took some piano lessons a while ago.

I had piano lessons when I was five or six years old, so my mom got me this little keyboard in my room. And then it progressed from that to classical guitar and drums and oboe.

I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.

All the kids at the kindergarten had to play, or at least touch, the piano. It was a good start. Then, after kindergarten, all my friends took piano lessons, so I joined them.

My mom says that she caught me one day in front of the TV watching opera. I was trying to sing back the opera. She saw that I really liked music, and so she put me in piano lessons when I was about three years old.

I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old 'cause my folks tried to get me away from the gramophone. And I just - I lived for music since I could think. And they got me piano lessons. So by the time I was 13, I was quite an accomplished piano player and musician.

It took me six years to get close to Picasso. I learnt a lot from him, and he was an absolute genius. He almost became my grandfather at the time. It was like he was a magician or something.

I want to meet Brandon Crawford and just pick his brain and figure out what helps him out on the defensive side of the ball.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

Martial arts is something you can learn or pick up and think you could do really well.

I'm not one that sulks when he's injured. I use it as time to learn, to pick up on things.

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

As you go through your career you learn what works for you and what doesn't and you pick things up with experience.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.

When I picked up guitar, it wasn't like, 'OK, I'm going to be Kenny Chesney.' It was like, 'I want to play a chord,' and then it was like, 'I want to play another one, then play a song, then sing while playing the song.'

When I was in Buffalo, Fred Jackson was you know, I would say he was a big mentor of mine and when I was in Miami, I probably picked apart Brian Hartline, Davone Bess, those guys.

When I'd get out of school in the afternoon, I would go to the golf course, and I just picked the game up. And when I was 13 years old, I could shoot 70 - even-par 71, one over par and then something like that. I just took a liking to the game.