I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
My parents were very musical in the sense that they were, you know, music lovers and avid buyers of records, but none of them actually play an instrument.
Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.
My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.
You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.
The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
My parents were strict with school, strict with grades. I had piano classes, horseback riding, dance.
My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.