Hugh Masekela Quotes

I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.

I started playing music at a pretty young age.

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.

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

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

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

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

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 wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored. I couldn't tell my left hand from my right back then!

I started playing music when I was really young.

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

I started playing drums at about seven or eight. My mom used to let me play with the pots and pans, and instead of telling me to stop like most moms would, she just let me do it. So the noise kind of turned into music. From that point on, musically, that's what I want to do: start creating beats.

I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.

I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.

I grew up playing music, ever since I was 10 years old.

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 started at the piano at the age of 4.

Growing up, I was so involved in music in different ways, be it taking piano lessons or guitar lessons. As a listener, I was always so inspired.

I've been playing and singing music since I was three or four years old. I was playing guitar, playing the piano.

I play the saxophone, and I used to play the piano.

I can play the piano. I started off with lessons, and then, as we always had a piano in the house, I would play around and became quite good.

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