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My mom was in a band for over 30 years, and my brother, sister, and I start taking classical piano lessons when we were three. She's really the reason why I'm still playing piano - she made me practice every day before school and made it a priority even when we didn't necessarily want it to be.

— Tess Henley

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

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.

— John Legend

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

— Ronnie Milsap

I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.

— Charlie Puth

My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.

— Tom Ellis

I'm the oldest in my family and do play piano.

— David Lambert

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.

— Jason Robert Brown

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.

— Micky Dolenz

I started taking piano lessons when I was about 5, and there was always a lot of music in my family: my parents both play instruments, my grandparents were classical violinists, and my grandfather was actually a music professor and a conductor.

— Adam Schlesinger

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

— Marvin Hamlisch