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I started playing music when I was really young.
ALEKSA PALLADINO I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing t...
CHICK COREA I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ...
BLAKE MICHAEL![]()
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front ...
LYKKE LI A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I cou...
JANET WEISS I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so t...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was k...
J. TILLMAN![]()
I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing ba...
DWYANE WADE I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
YOUNG BUCK When I was around 13 years old, I started playing in bands and became obsessed with Blink-182 and Ne...
CASSADEE POPE My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I ...
OSCAR ISAAC When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various...
ANDY ROURKE![]()
I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I...
MAURY YESTON I think I realized around hole 14 that Virginia wasn't going to mess up. She was playing steady; she...
ASHLEY KNOLL I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banj...
DICKEY BETTS When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything that...
ERIC CARR![]()
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled a...
BAT FOR LASHES![]()
I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory o...
TORI AMOS When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything ...
ERIC CARR I started playing soccer as a young kid. I wanted to be just like my dad.
JULIAN DALANHESE I can play the trumpet. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be the next Louis Armstrong. I started...
DOUGLAS BOOTH![]()
I love to talk about the drums and music. I started playing drums when I was probably six and played...
SEAN BERDY When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
PATINA MILLER Being used so much is a surprise. I was planning on playing a little more baseball. When I started p...
BRETT CASEY![]()
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutel...
BURT BACHARACH I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
CARLENE CARTER Started playing indoor volleyball in 5th grade. Started playing club volleyball when I was 15. Playe...
BROOKE SWEAT I started playing piano when I was 7. And I started with classical lessons. Then I really got expose...
HERBIE HANCOCK![]()
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied...
MOBY When I first started playing, I was playing all the time. You don't have to get a group of guys toge...
EVAN DEPEW I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing...
RONALDINHO I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started wri...
RACHEL PLATTEN Then I started swinging around the hip injury and started hooking the ball 30, 40, 50 yards. I remem...
JESPER PARNEVIK![]()
I was only 14 when I started playing the east London rave scene. At the time, I was so captivated by...
CHARLI XCX The reason I started, and got into playing punk as a band was quite mercenary, to be honest. I wante...
GARY NUMAN When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had op...
BECKY LYNCH It was real fun. I was more out of shape than I thought I was. The first half I started out bad. But...
LADERRICK SATTERWHITE![]()
I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very qui...
JEREMY RENNER I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could ...
Q'ORIANKA KILCHER In junior high I just started playing the guitar. I just like music. It's in my family.
CLINT CASTANEDA When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitaris...
WADADA LEO SMITH I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
RYAN CABRERA![]()
When I started playing music, I was more of a character. Now I'm just me with a cool outfit on. ...
BEN HOPKINS When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of...
MAJEL BARRETT In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself s...
AUTRE NE VEUT When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty muc...
JON ANDERSON I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play sh...
BUZZ OSBORNE I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I d...
RAJIV OUSEPH I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classica...
YANN TIERSEN![]()
I tried so many different musics. I kind of burned out on classical and wanted to make it fun again....
LINDSEY STIRLING When I started acting professionally, it really felt like an extension of just playing around - it w...
OPHELIA LOVIBOND When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then...
OTIS BLACKWELL![]()
When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wa...
SACHIN TENDULKAR I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really likin...
RANDY BACHMAN I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. I...
CHORD OVERSTREET When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic be...
JACK ANTONOFF![]()
I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started bangi...
NAT WOLFF They think I got released too soon, and my bone wasn't completed healed when I started to play socce...
LAURA ENGEL![]()
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing e...
LARA ST. JOHN![]()
I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school...
IRINA SHAYK Dad started playing when he was 8. I've been playing since I was 4 years old and started writing son...
HENRY GARZA Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guita...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA![]()
When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of ye...
JACKSON BROWNE It's always been a dream. You'd always want to be playing the majors and I've watched that one a mil...
CAMILO VILLEGAS I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out ...
MADISON DAVENPORT I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a...
BENJAMIN BOOKER I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mand...
CHORD OVERSTREET It was tough, ... But I loved volleyball right when I started playing it. I can't give it up.
ANGELA EDWARDS When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they ...
WAYNE KRAMER (I) Went to St. Paul Lutheran and started playing. I always had a basketball hoop in my room. When I...
JAKE PEYMANN![]()
Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11...
BRITTANY HOWARD There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet pla...
GARY BURTON![]()
I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was ...
EARL MONROE My dad would moonlight back then, ... He'd worked his way through college in a band before he became...
BOB SCHNEIDER![]()
I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you kno...
POST MALONE![]()
I wanted to play drums, and I got a set when I was 14 and just started to play in the house, to the ...
TIPPER GORE![]()
I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me...
ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT I started watching it more and playing it more when Tiger started having those big years.
EVAN NEEDHAM![]()
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always c...
LONI ANDERSON![]()
It was only when I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen.
SAM SMITH A producer I had worked with (David Kahne) got the gig with Paul and brought me in and then, that wa...
RUSTY ANDERSON![]()
I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman ...
ALVIN LEE When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I wen...
K. FLAY I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all cam...
LAURA BELL BUNDY![]()
There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started ...
GEORGE BRETT I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends...
DARREN ROBINSON I just started playing Hold 'Em,
DENNIS PERRY I just picked them up and started playing every day for hours against the garage. I just couldn't st...
CLAUDIA HIRT I was around kids and kids' music. Maybe I started doing my own for selfish reasons. I wanted kids t...
LAURIE BERKNER I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.
HANNAH MILLS![]()
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge...
KURT RUSSELL I just started playing basketball and I feel pretty healthy. I feel by the time I return to Houston ...
YAO MING When Tim moved away it got really difficult. We had a couple shows, but it was too hard. I knew when...
AIMEE ARGOTE As my playing progressed I started playing Santana and Jimmy Hendrix.
RAFAEL MENDEZ![]()
Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've alwa...
MIRANDA LAMBERT![]()
I was anxious to get started. There was so much anticipation. I wanted to get in the routine of play...
SIDNEY CROSBY I was always around volleyball since I was very young because my sister played in grade school and m...
JAY MERGENTHALER I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 an...
DAVE HOLLAND At halftime we had a little talk. And somehow, we started playing aggressive basketball. I complimen...
JEFF KERN![]()
It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums ...
NEIL PEART
ALEKSA PALLADINO I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing t...
CHICK COREA I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ...
BLAKE MICHAEL
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front ... LYKKE LI A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I cou...
JANET WEISS I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so t...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was k...
J. TILLMAN
I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing ba... DWYANE WADE I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
YOUNG BUCK When I was around 13 years old, I started playing in bands and became obsessed with Blink-182 and Ne...
CASSADEE POPE My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I ...
OSCAR ISAAC When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various...
ANDY ROURKE
I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I... MAURY YESTON I think I realized around hole 14 that Virginia wasn't going to mess up. She was playing steady; she...
ASHLEY KNOLL I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banj...
DICKEY BETTS When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything that...
ERIC CARR
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled a... BAT FOR LASHES
I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory o... TORI AMOS When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything ...
ERIC CARR I started playing soccer as a young kid. I wanted to be just like my dad.
JULIAN DALANHESE I can play the trumpet. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be the next Louis Armstrong. I started...
DOUGLAS BOOTH
I love to talk about the drums and music. I started playing drums when I was probably six and played... SEAN BERDY When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
PATINA MILLER Being used so much is a surprise. I was planning on playing a little more baseball. When I started p...
BRETT CASEY
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutel... BURT BACHARACH I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
CARLENE CARTER Started playing indoor volleyball in 5th grade. Started playing club volleyball when I was 15. Playe...
BROOKE SWEAT I started playing piano when I was 7. And I started with classical lessons. Then I really got expose...
HERBIE HANCOCK
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied... MOBY When I first started playing, I was playing all the time. You don't have to get a group of guys toge...
EVAN DEPEW I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing...
RONALDINHO I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started wri...
RACHEL PLATTEN Then I started swinging around the hip injury and started hooking the ball 30, 40, 50 yards. I remem...
JESPER PARNEVIK
I was only 14 when I started playing the east London rave scene. At the time, I was so captivated by... CHARLI XCX The reason I started, and got into playing punk as a band was quite mercenary, to be honest. I wante...
GARY NUMAN When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had op...
BECKY LYNCH It was real fun. I was more out of shape than I thought I was. The first half I started out bad. But...
LADERRICK SATTERWHITE
I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very qui... JEREMY RENNER I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could ...
Q'ORIANKA KILCHER In junior high I just started playing the guitar. I just like music. It's in my family.
CLINT CASTANEDA When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitaris...
WADADA LEO SMITH I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
RYAN CABRERA
When I started playing music, I was more of a character. Now I'm just me with a cool outfit on. ... BEN HOPKINS When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of...
MAJEL BARRETT In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself s...
AUTRE NE VEUT When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty muc...
JON ANDERSON I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play sh...
BUZZ OSBORNE I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I d...
RAJIV OUSEPH I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classica...
YANN TIERSEN
I tried so many different musics. I kind of burned out on classical and wanted to make it fun again.... LINDSEY STIRLING When I started acting professionally, it really felt like an extension of just playing around - it w...
OPHELIA LOVIBOND When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then...
OTIS BLACKWELL
When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wa... SACHIN TENDULKAR I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really likin...
RANDY BACHMAN I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. I...
CHORD OVERSTREET When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic be...
JACK ANTONOFF
I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started bangi... NAT WOLFF They think I got released too soon, and my bone wasn't completed healed when I started to play socce...
LAURA ENGEL
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing e... LARA ST. JOHN
I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school... IRINA SHAYK Dad started playing when he was 8. I've been playing since I was 4 years old and started writing son...
HENRY GARZA Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guita...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA
When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of ye... JACKSON BROWNE It's always been a dream. You'd always want to be playing the majors and I've watched that one a mil...
CAMILO VILLEGAS I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out ...
MADISON DAVENPORT I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a...
BENJAMIN BOOKER I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mand...
CHORD OVERSTREET It was tough, ... But I loved volleyball right when I started playing it. I can't give it up.
ANGELA EDWARDS When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they ...
WAYNE KRAMER (I) Went to St. Paul Lutheran and started playing. I always had a basketball hoop in my room. When I...
JAKE PEYMANN
Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11... BRITTANY HOWARD There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet pla...
GARY BURTON
I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was ... EARL MONROE My dad would moonlight back then, ... He'd worked his way through college in a band before he became...
BOB SCHNEIDER
I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you kno... POST MALONE
I wanted to play drums, and I got a set when I was 14 and just started to play in the house, to the ... TIPPER GORE
I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me... ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT I started watching it more and playing it more when Tiger started having those big years.
EVAN NEEDHAM
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always c... LONI ANDERSON
It was only when I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen. SAM SMITH A producer I had worked with (David Kahne) got the gig with Paul and brought me in and then, that wa...
RUSTY ANDERSON
I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman ... ALVIN LEE When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I wen...
K. FLAY I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all cam...
LAURA BELL BUNDY
There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started ... GEORGE BRETT I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends...
DARREN ROBINSON I just started playing Hold 'Em,
DENNIS PERRY I just picked them up and started playing every day for hours against the garage. I just couldn't st...
CLAUDIA HIRT I was around kids and kids' music. Maybe I started doing my own for selfish reasons. I wanted kids t...
LAURIE BERKNER I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.
HANNAH MILLS
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge... KURT RUSSELL I just started playing basketball and I feel pretty healthy. I feel by the time I return to Houston ...
YAO MING When Tim moved away it got really difficult. We had a couple shows, but it was too hard. I knew when...
AIMEE ARGOTE As my playing progressed I started playing Santana and Jimmy Hendrix.
RAFAEL MENDEZ
Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've alwa... MIRANDA LAMBERT
I was anxious to get started. There was so much anticipation. I wanted to get in the routine of play... SIDNEY CROSBY I was always around volleyball since I was very young because my sister played in grade school and m...
JAY MERGENTHALER I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 an...
DAVE HOLLAND At halftime we had a little talk. And somehow, we started playing aggressive basketball. I complimen...
JEFF KERN
It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums ... NEIL PEART
The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer. 
I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess. 
I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculat... 