Dick Dale Quotes

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.

I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.

I just sang at first - I didn't ever play guitar before The Kills.

I started playing mandolin when I was three or four years old because I was too small to be playing guitar. As I got older and more responsible with holding instruments, I was allowed to play my mom's guitar that she had.

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

I didn't decide to play guitar, but that was the instrument which I was offered. I've always been interested in horn-type instruments, such as a saxophone; but those instruments are very expensive, so my dad bought me a guitar instead. I didn't like the guitar at first, but after noodling on it for several months, I developed a feel for it.

I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.

I've been playing and singing music since I was three or four years old. I was playing guitar, playing the piano.

I think I've been playing bass for as long as I've played guitar, and I love them both.

My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was hollow body, I could play it. So I kind of played on that for about a year, learning scales and all that. And here I am.

I played in orchestras all through high school and taught myself how to play guitar.

I've been making music since age five.

When I was much younger I tried to play guitar and bass first. Drums were just the easiest thing for me to play. I picked it up really quickly.

When I feel like improvising, I always improvise on the guitar, never on the lute. It's as natural to me as breathing.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.

I've actually been playing music ever since I was a young a kid. I got my first guitar when I was about 7 or 8 years old, so I've always been doing music.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.