Tom Scholz Quotes

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've actually been playing music ever since I was a young a kid. I got my first guitar when I was about 7 or 8 years old, so I've always been doing music.

I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.

Music was my first love, and at Marlborough we put bands together and sang the pop songs of the day. Although I couldn't read or write music - I still can't - I taught myself to play the guitar and piano by listening to songs and working out the chords.

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

I started playing violin when I was about five years old and I learned to read a little bit of music, but that's all been long, long forgotten! I actually quit violin to teach myself guitar and just went from there.

I've been sort of playing music since I was probably 8 years old or something like that.

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

I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

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 first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth birthday. I started taking lessons when I was thirteen, but only for a few months, and then I just kept teaching myself.

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.

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

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

I started playing drums at about seven or eight. My mom used to let me play with the pots and pans, and instead of telling me to stop like most moms would, she just let me do it. So the noise kind of turned into music. From that point on, musically, that's what I want to do: start creating beats.

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.

I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.

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.

I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.

I started playing mandolin when I was three or four years old because I was too small to be playing guitar. As I got older and more responsible with holding instruments, I was allowed to play my mom's guitar that she had.

I think I've been playing bass for as long as I've played guitar, and I love them both.