Alison Krauss Quotes

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

I've actually been playing music ever since I was a young a kid. I got my first guitar when I was about 7 or 8 years old, so I've always been doing music.

I started playing when I was 5. I'm from a family of musicians.

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

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.

I grew up playing music, ever since I was 10 years old.

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

My dad was a fine pianist and he had a lot of great records and beautiful music.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

I started playing music at a pretty young age.

I do have musical background; I sing.

I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.