Peggy Fleming Quotes

I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.

I didn't play a lot of bass as a kid, but I sang it.

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

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 think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

I started playing drums at about seven or eight. My mom used to let me play with the pots and pans, and instead of telling me to stop like most moms would, she just let me do it. So the noise kind of turned into music. From that point on, musically, that's what I want to do: start creating beats.

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

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

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.

When I was 12, I decided to become a musician. 'Physical Graffiti' was the first album I ever owned.

I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old 'cause my folks tried to get me away from the gramophone. And I just - I lived for music since I could think. And they got me piano lessons. So by the time I was 13, I was quite an accomplished piano player and musician.

When I was a kid, I had a xylophone, and I thought that was the instrument I wanted to play. I didn't realize it was a toy.

I'm so jealous of my friends who came from these super musical households where they were learning piano at three years old. My parents didn't really play loads of music around the house. We had the radio, but they weren't teaching me about music.

Well my dad forced me into playing the violin when I was about three and it all started from there. I went to Suzuki for violin lessons, and you learn to play by ear instead of reading music.

I listen to music all the time. I need music and I love music and I appreciate it. It inspires me.

I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.

Passionate musicians only come from passionate five-year-olds.

My siblings weren't playing music; I was the only one who wanted to buy a guitar and was listening on headphones the whole time.

I've always been into music. My mom and dad used to always play music in the house.

I love music, and I got an ear for it.