Tom Curren Quotes

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

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.

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

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.

I was 15 when I started making music properly.

Music has always been something that I knew that I would eventually want to pursue.

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 played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.

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 didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I have done nothing my entire life but play music.

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

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.'

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 grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

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've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

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

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.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

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