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I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always be... JEFF BUCKLEY
I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the bl... KINA GRANNIS
I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started d... EDDIE VAN HALEN I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play sh...
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I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a ... IAN ANDERSON I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I s...
JOHNNY RAMONE
I saw all the women and I figured that looked good. I was horney. I got a guitar off my brother and ... ANGUS YOUNG
I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I... MAURY YESTON In junior high I just started playing the guitar. I just like music. It's in my family.
CLINT CASTANEDA I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my f...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s... MICHAEL J. FOX
When my YouTube videos started to get really big, I was like, 'Man, this is pretty sweet.' I... AUSTIN MAHONE I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Mar...
DAN AUERBACH
This is music I've known since I first started to play the guitar. Ray's music was one of my inspira... JOHN SCOFIELD
When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I... CHRIS CORNELL I started doing some acoustic things. When my character was out at sea on a tanker, running his flee...
JACK WAGNER
The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. T... ALEX LIFESON We probably didn't even consider becoming a guitar band again. We used to be a guitar band when we s...
TIM RICE-OXLEY
I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got... KIP WINGER
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied... MOBY
My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, a... TOBY KEITH In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself s...
AUTRE NE VEUT As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of...
PHILIP SELWAY Hick-hop is a combination of your traditional country instruments - the fiddle, banjo, the pedal ste...
COWBOY TROY
When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but... JEFF BUCKLEY I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always arou...
MICKY DOLENZ When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I c...
GRIMES Dad started playing when he was 8. I've been playing since I was 4 years old and started writing son...
HENRY GARZA I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mand...
CHORD OVERSTREET I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. I...
CHORD OVERSTREET I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
RYAN CABRERA My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I ...
GEORGE BENSON
My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul. ROD STEWART
I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was al... BABYFACE I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try...
HAL SPARKS
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I starte... JASPER FFORDE I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to comp...
CASSIE STEELE My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I ...
OSCAR ISAAC I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 an...
DAVE HOLLAND I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of ...
TOM WALSH When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his...
VALERIE JUNE
Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've alwa... MIRANDA LAMBERT I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all cam...
LAURA BELL BUNDY
I first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth bi... ALESSIA CARA When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then...
OTIS BLACKWELL
I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975. ERIC BOGOSIAN I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowt...
MIKE WHITE I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music befor...
MAC DEMARCO Rob started off real good and I started off slow but in the fourth quarter I came up with it. We're ...
ISAIAH TUCKER
When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was suppose... PETE TOWNSHEND 'Despacito' started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this tra...
LUIS FONSI It hasn't got the scuzzy rock of the Vaselines, or the more refined scuzzy rock of Eugenius. It come...
EUGENE KELLY I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free....
CARLA BLEY
It was only when I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen. SAM SMITH
I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the... ZOE FOSTER BLAKE
I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I... LEAH LABELLE We started slow, but we once we started to play Michigan Tech volleyball everything started to work ...
KRISTA MIKESCH
I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again ... ROBERT SMITH I started playing the guitar and singing at about 11 or 12.
DRAKE BELL I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but ...
DOC WATSON It took me longer than what I wanted, ... but I started to feel better about my abilities. I started...
CARSON PALMER I got into Bob Marley, I got into reggae music. And that music just spoke to me and so it just becam...
MATISYAHU MILLER
I have started exploring my own life and have started valuing myself. I have started valuing my indi... DIVYANKA TRIPATHI I started a guitar school. It was called Home of the Blues, on 125th Street in New York. I did that ...
BROWNIE MCGHEE It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. '...
GILBERT HERNANDEZ
Initially, I just used the guitar as a prop. I'd pose with it in front of a mirror in my Kiss ma... DIMEBAG DARRELL We started off a little slow but got better as the game went on ...When we ended up getting our oppo...
DARREN ROMMERDAHL My folks got me a single cutaway Kay. It was acoustic but it also had a pickup. That's the guitar I ...
CARL WILSON
When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, lik... JOHNNY DEPP
When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting. BRIAN ENO When the Box Tops first started out, I couldn't play guitar much at all. Only after we had our first...
ALEX CHILTON
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stu... HUNTER HAYES
I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand. MICHAEL GAMBON My guitar playing has not developed as much as I think it could because I never practice. I only pla...
JULIANA HATFIELD When I started writing Sabbath stuff it was just something that sounded right. I didn't think I was ...
TONY IOMMI Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, ...
DAN WHELDON I noticed that when my daughter was born, my son really, really liked her. But then as she started g...
GENE LUEN YANG When I started working with him, that's when I started seeing the legit side of the music business. ...
AJ CASE
I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone t... ANGUS YOUNG My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight...
BIRDY
I started using Twitter a lot and realized I had a lot of fans. Then I saw that I can share my music... MALUMA It was a completely different match. He started to play better and better.
FELICIANO LOPEZ I started off because it was good money. Then it became much bigger than that. It came from my heart...
HEATHER UNDERWOOD
I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started ... BRIE LARSON
I was in my 20s when I started writing my goals down, assigning each a date that I would achieve the... LEWIS HOWES
When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the R... GARY CLARK, JR. In the '90s, I think I rediscovered my guitar. The Jam was obviously very guitar-based, but in t...
PAUL WELLER It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess t...
J MASCIS I started playing piano when I was 7. And I started with classical lessons. Then I really got expose...
HERBIE HANCOCK
I started studying business and finance in Edinburgh as a backup plan. I was still making music many... KYGO
All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based ... IAN ANDERSON
I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing ph... ELLIE GOULDING Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ...
JACK BRUCE We started off slow with some tough matches in the first round. We got better as we went.
CHARLIE LANE We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was ...
ARTO LINDSAY
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto fo... M. WARD Everyone was jumping on top of me. Unfortunately my leg got caught up in a weird position, and I sta...
HARRY OLIVER
