Bryce Dessner Quotes

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

My dad was a really good classical guitarist. He took lessons with a student of Andre Segovia.

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 grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today if I tried. I still enjoy that stuff, and I think I naturally gravitate towards the classical licks; in fact, I know that I do. I gravitate towards the classical licks that I heard by famous old composers.

I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

I've been studying on my own. I'm not really trained. I went to school for about a year and a half. I never really studied music, but, I mean, I did. I studied for two years, maybe.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

I never went to music school.

I've been devoting quite a bit of my time to harmonic studies on my own, in libraries and places like that. I've found you've got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.

I studied classical music in high school.

I ended up taking piano lessons at a really young age, I took, like, years of piano lessons, and I always loved to sing.

I studied classical guitar in school, and that type of stuff has led to writing for Kronos.

I first began with the recorder in our community music school. After that, I played horn and participated in the school orchestra.

I studied music at Dakhhini.

I think every singer should get a formal training in music.