James Vincent McMorrow Quotes

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.

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

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

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

I've been doing music in some form since I was seven years old.

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.

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 guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

I've been playing music since I was born.

It seems like I've always been singing, at least since I was 5.

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'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.

Music is a continual learning process. One finds new insights all the time. For me, it began at a very early age; from the beginning, there was something besides the notes.

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 was 15 when I started making music properly.

I came to music very young.

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

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

I'm a guitar player, really - I mean, first and foremost - I grew up with all that great 1960s music, in terms of growing up, becoming a musician, so it's like first-love stuff; I'm always going to go back to it.

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

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'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.