James Bay Quotes

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

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

So I started to learn guitar right away.

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

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

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

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

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.

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

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

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

I actually started learning the santoor around the age of 9. I was inspired by my mother who I used to watch play for hours.

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 played guitar since I was 9 years old, drums since I was 11.

I started piano like my sisters. After one year or two, I didn't like it anymore. Then, because I like trumpet, I played the cornet. When you are 7, you can't play trumpet - you play cornet. And something didn't go well. The teacher was too hard. Too rough. Suddenly, there was this instrument, the flute, that I could immediately play.

I started playing on my grandmother's organ at a really young age. I learned 'Chopsticks' and that kind of thing, but I didn't really start picking it up and start taking it super seriously until I was probably about 13, 14.

I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked at that giant monster and said to myself - I am not going to lock myself on that bench the whole day. This is small and lightweight. I can play from standing, sitting or walking.

I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.