Rostam Batmanglij Quotes

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

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

I started playing on my grandmother's organ at a really young age. I learned 'Chopsticks' and that kind of thing, but I didn't really start picking it up and start taking it super seriously until I was probably about 13, 14.

When I was five I had violin lessons.

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

I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.

When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

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.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

I think having musical training as a child was really, really important. I studied piano as a child. Piano is a great instrument to understand musical theory on. I think I have that in my brain somewhere.

I studied violin when I was very young.

I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12.

I ended up taking piano lessons at a really young age, I took, like, years of piano lessons, and I always loved to sing.

I first started playing the violin at 6. And then at 7, it was piano. So from then it was just classical music like every day.

My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.

I played saxophone for a while when I was a kid.

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

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

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.