Blackbear Quotes

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.

I started playing mandolin when I was three or four years old because I was too small to be playing guitar. As I got older and more responsible with holding instruments, I was allowed to play my mom's guitar that she had.

I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.

At 12 or 13, I picked up a guitar because my mother made me learn how to play.

I didn't even learn to play guitar until the movie 'Walk Hard,' which is probably fortunate because maybe I would have pursued it, and that would have been a waste of my time.

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

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

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.

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

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

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 don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.

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.