Don McLean Quotes

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 was 15 when I started making music properly.

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

I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.

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 out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.

I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.

I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.

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

I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.

I started writing songs at 17.

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

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

When you start playing as young as me, and you've been in front of audiences your entire life, this is literally what I grew up doing.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I'm a late bloomer in music.

I've spent my life playing music.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.