Dave Holland Quotes

I've spent my life playing music.

Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

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

When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

I've been playing music since I was born.

I did some stage when I was a kid, around 16 or so. I was living in Melbourne and had a band. I was quite young. We weren't very good. Then I found a band in Perth. We played around for three years. We're in the 'History of Rock'N'Roll,' a book about Perth music.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

I always got great respect as a bass player.

Years and years ago, I sang at a blues bar with a band behind me. It was with my friend, my guitar teacher at the time. I took some sporadic lessons.

I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

I'm a bass player and I'm a drummer - I'm a big fan of bass players.

I am a trombone player, and that was my first instrument.

I can sing, but I consider myself a bass player. I'm, you know, a musician first.

I've been making music since age five.

When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

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