Carlene Carter Quotes

I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old 'cause my folks tried to get me away from the gramophone. And I just - I lived for music since I could think. And they got me piano lessons. So by the time I was 13, I was quite an accomplished piano player and musician.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

I started playing music at a pretty young age.

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

I've been playing since I was eight years old.

I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.

I studied violin when I was very young.

I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12.

I first started playing the violin at 6. And then at 7, it was piano. So from then it was just classical music like every day.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.

I started playing violin when I was about five years old and I learned to read a little bit of music, but that's all been long, long forgotten! I actually quit violin to teach myself guitar and just went from there.

I started piano like my sisters. After one year or two, I didn't like it anymore. Then, because I like trumpet, I played the cornet. When you are 7, you can't play trumpet - you play cornet. And something didn't go well. The teacher was too hard. Too rough. Suddenly, there was this instrument, the flute, that I could immediately play.

I started playing on my grandmother's organ at a really young age. I learned 'Chopsticks' and that kind of thing, but I didn't really start picking it up and start taking it super seriously until I was probably about 13, 14.

I guess my first instrument was the recorder when I was about five or six.

I started playing piano around the age of five and, you know, I fell in love with music.

I had piano lessons when I was five or six years old, so my mom got me this little keyboard in my room. And then it progressed from that to classical guitar and drums and oboe.

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.