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I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

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

My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.