Fawad Khan Quotes

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

I lived for music since I could think.

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

I have played lots of clubs since I was 14, but I always did my own music.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

I play no instruments.

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started with the piano when I was 4 but fell in love with the drums. My dad always has music playing.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.