Michael Anthony Quotes

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.

I wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons. I need to learn more things, to be an artist or whatever, and then transfer that back into writing songs.

I've been singing since I was nine or ten.

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.

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

I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't paying attention to me, to now I've got their attention. It's up to me to what I feed them with my music. It's up to me how I do that. I've put a lot of thought into how great the songs are, and how I want people to perceive me.

I started out singing covers. I've sung a lot of 'em and love a lot of 'em.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to me at my age.

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter.