Wyclef Jean Quotes

I started playing the guitar and singing at about 11 or 12.

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.

I started to play the guitar for a couple of years, which was fun. I still bring it out once in a while, could bust out a couple of songs, but I'm not very good at it.

I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.

I started playing when I was about 13, mainly because Dad had guitars lying around the house. My dad taught me my first three chords, and I taught myself from there.

I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar.

As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

Music's been a huge passion of mine since I was really young. I started playing guitar when I was thirteen.

I started playing guitar because of instrumental guitar music.

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

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

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the guys who strummed acoustic guitars at parties were the ones who got the attention. So I asked a friend to show me a few chords, and when I moved to L.A. I spent a lot of time practicing my guitar.

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

I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.

I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing for it and got one. Started learning lead breaks from songs, because that was the easiest thing to do at the time. I had the guitar for two years before I learned any chords. Really.

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.

I've been playing since I was eight years old.

I love playing the guitar.

The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele.

I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.

Wanting to play the guitar was neither a wild dream nor a realistic ambition. It was simply inevitable.

I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you know, it got to a point where on expert, you can only exceed to a certain point. And so, you know, I was like, 'Let's play real guitar. Let's not waste more time.' So, I got my mom, I told her to buy me a guitar for Christmas, and I started making music then.

I started playing violin when I was about five years old and I learned to read a little bit of music, but that's all been long, long forgotten! I actually quit violin to teach myself guitar and just went from there.