Andy Rourke Quotes

I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

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.

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.

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 trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.

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

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.

The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

I started to play the guitar for a couple of years, which was fun. I still bring it out once in a while, could bust out a couple of songs, but I'm not very good at it.

I didn't play a lot of bass as a kid, but I sang it.

If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.

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

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

I played trumpet in school at an early age.

I can play the piano. I started off with lessons, and then, as we always had a piano in the house, I would play around and became quite good.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.

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

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

I do have musical background; I sing.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.