Hiromi Uehara Quotes

My dad played a little bit of piano and guitar, but not that professionally. I saw him play, and I said, 'I want to play. I want to try this instrument.'

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

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

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

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

I started playing the drums when I was 10 years old, I think because it was fun. And then when I hit adolescence around 14, I sorta liked girls, so drums became more of a passion, and I started playing in bands.

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 grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

Playing music was always a part of my life; I don't know anything else.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.

Music is a nice friend to have around, whether it is just for yourself or for other people. If you can enjoy it, being professional is almost secondary.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

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

I lived for music since I could think.

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

I've been playing music since I was born.

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 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.

The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.