Sam Barry Quotes

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

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 kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.

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

I self-taught myself music at 19-20.

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

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

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

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

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 am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

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

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

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

I've been playing music since I was born.

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.

The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.