Tracy Chapman Quotes

I was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14.

I was 15 when I started making music properly.

I've been making music since age five.

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

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.

I started writing songs at 17.

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

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 got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

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.

Songwriting was definitely first. I started singing, and then I was rapping; then I went back to singing. As I was growing up, I just taught myself piano and guitar.

I wrote my first song, called Spectator,' when I was 11.

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

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

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

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

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

I started writing songs at age 15.

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

When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.

When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years, but when we started 'Radiohead' it became very apparent quite quickly that I just wanted to concentrate on the drumming.

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

I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.