Anderson Paak Quotes

As a young kid I never saw myself as a drummer.

I used to play the drums when I was, like, 5 through 10.

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.

I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

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.

You pick up a lot of things as a kid. That's why I play Telecaster.

Energy wise, playing the drums was a lot of fun; I just felt like it was a natural fit for me.

When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set.

Age isn't a barrier to playing the bass, and I've definitely improved over the years, although maybe I'm not as flash as I once was. But looking back, I can't imagine a life without a guitar.

I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was cool - and when I was eight, I begged my parents to let me have lessons. After a couple of weeks, I wanted to give up, but my parents were very focused and made me keep going, which I'm very pleased about now.

How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

I asked for a guitar when I was 8 years old for Christmas. I have no idea why. I never had any guitar heroes. I still don't. But there must have been something in me because I've been playing for 30 years.

Drums were my first instrument.

All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard.

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.