Joan Baez Quotes

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice.

I love music so much. I've got something going all the time. I've gotta be singing. I've gotta be creating music, or I'm not happy.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

Eventually, my dad bought me a guitar for Christmas, and then I just went from there, man. I bought a drum kit a few years later and bought a bass, started producing, started singing.

Wanting to play the guitar was neither a wild dream nor a realistic ambition. It was simply inevitable.

I knew from when I was six that music would be my life, and I used to spend most of my time in the music room.

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.

We all like music in my family, but I'm the only one who's made it my life.

I started playing music at a pretty young age.

I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.

I've actually been playing music ever since I was a young a kid. I got my first guitar when I was about 7 or 8 years old, so I've always been doing music.

I started playing music when I was really young.

I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.

I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

From childhood, I have been more of a musician than a singer. People close to me know how much effort I put into practising. Even when I am travelling, I have my tanpura on my iPhone.