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I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.

— Maury Yeston

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

— Abel Korzeniowski

My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think.

— Birdy

I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.

— Condola Rashad

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.

— Rachel Platten

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

— Tori Amos

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

— Alanis Morissette

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

— Kiana Tom

I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.

— Bobby McFerrin

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

— George Gershwin

✗Opposing Perspectives

I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don't remember when I wasn't playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called 'Monster Rock' that I wrote. And I won.

— Ian Axel