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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

— Patrick Swayze

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

— Denise Van Outen

When I was five I had violin lessons.

— Randy Bachman

Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.

— Ellen Barkin

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark.

— Peggy Fleming

I did a lot of dancing when I was young.

— Emeraude Toubia

The dance world was a big part of my growing up.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

Texas is where I found my musical self.

— Jerry Jeff Walker

I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.

— J. Cole

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.

— Gustavo Dudamel

✗Opposing Perspectives

Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.

— Kat Edmonson