Jerry Reed Quotes

I started playing guitar by the time I was 9.

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

I've been playing music since I was born.

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

Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.

I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.

Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

I've always loved the guitar. You see Jimi Hendrix playing the guitar with his teeth, and OK, you know you're never going to be able to do that, but I always wanted to play an instrument of some sort.

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.

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.

I've never mastered the guitar. Either I was playing it, or it was playing me; it depends how you look at it. As a kid, the only things I had to do was go to school, do my homework, and play guitar.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

I've been making music since age five.

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 had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

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

I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.

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 think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

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.