Ellie Goulding 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've spent my life playing music.

I've been making music since age five.

I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn't last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn't have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

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

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

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

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

Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.

I started playing the drums when I was 10 years old, I think because it was fun. And then when I hit adolescence around 14, I sorta liked girls, so drums became more of a passion, and I started playing in bands.

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

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

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

I've been playing music since I was born.

Drums were my first instrument.

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.