Jose Feliciano Quotes

I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.

My father started me out on the flute and I began going to teachers.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

I learnt everything to do with music in my own time.

Yeah, my very first teacher when I was 6 was a big influence, because it was so boring that I quit guitar.

I self-taught myself music at 19-20.

When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord.

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.

I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about three hours on it desperate to be brilliant. Eventually, I got some proper lessons.

I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

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

I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.