I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.
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I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.
I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!
I tried to learn the violin for a while.
I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.
When I was five I had violin lessons.
I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.
I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didn't have a great love for it.
I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.
I played the violin my whole life. I wanted to play from the time I was just a little kid, and I've always loved dance as well. I wanted to make people smile. I wanted to add an extra energy to my playing and make it visual and make it unique and fun.
We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in orchestras three times a week. I learned more from that than anything else.
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