Eliot Sumner Quotes

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

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

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

I lived for music since I could think.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

Music, from the time I was probably about five years old, was my obsession. I was going to say 'passion,' but I really was obsessed; I really didn't want to do anything else.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

For me, I guess music has always been the through-line. You know, I played guitar from a really young age, and my dad played, and my cousin gave me a drum kit when I was 13, and I played bass guitar, so, you know, it was definitely always in the house.

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.

My dad played a little bit of piano and guitar, but not that professionally. I saw him play, and I said, 'I want to play. I want to try this instrument.'

Music is in my DNA!

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

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

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.'

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I'm always singing. My mom said ever since I could talk, I was singing.

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.

The great love of my life is music.

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 played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.

Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.