Juan Diego Florez Quotes

I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own.

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

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

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 been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

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

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

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

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

I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

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.

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.

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

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 was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.

My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick sharkskin suit. Believe it or not, that's how I decided I wanted to get into music.

I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.

When I was a kid. 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. Crappy rock bands, avant-garde things where we'd, like, 'wanna go against the norm, man.'

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.