Josh Homme Quotes

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until finally I got one that was big enough to make a proper sound.

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved it. I started making up my own songs right away.

For me, I guess music has always been the through-line. You know, I played guitar from a really young age, and my dad played, and my cousin gave me a drum kit when I was 13, and I played bass guitar, so, you know, it was definitely always in the house.

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever.

I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad bought me a $7.50 guitar.

I was 11 years old, and I had been playing classical piano for three years, and suddenly the guitar came and landed in my arms. I fell in love with that instrument, and I still love it today. I love it so much.

My dad played a little bit of piano and guitar, but not that professionally. I saw him play, and I said, 'I want to play. I want to try this instrument.'

I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.

My little brother played drums, so we had a drum set over at my house.

A family friend was staying with us once and had brought over a ukulele. I just loved the way she played it. I saved up the money from my 11th birthday and went out and bought one for myself.

My first memory of guitar was seeing my father play one.

There was an old acoustic in the house that my mother had given me for my fifth birthday. I took it off the wall and started jamming. I was seven years old at the time.

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

I've been playing drums since I was 7.

I got my first guitar for Christmas when I was five years old.