Pat Metheny Quotes

I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.

I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

The trumpet is forceful.

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

I do a mean mouth trumpet.

The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 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 remember that I started playing brass - not so much because I had a calling but because I thought it looked cool.

I am a trombone player, and that was my first instrument.

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

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 played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth.

I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

I'm a terrible trumpet player.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

I've been playing music since I was born.

I've got a lot of respect for tuba players, just carrying that thing around.

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

Most people don't even know what a trombone is. It's not that popular as a front instrument... I picked it up and fell in love with it as a kid. It's a difficult instrument, but I like doing things that seem impossible.

For me to want to play the trumpet was a very, very odd thing for my clan as a whole. One of my uncles was a high school principal, and he referred to my trumpet as a bugle, which really hurt me.