Kristian Nairn Quotes

I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.

I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

I had always wanted to pursue music. It was always a dream, but it was always a dream in the sense of, when you're young, 'I want to be president' or 'I want to be an astronaut and fly to Mars.' That's what it was to me.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

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

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

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

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

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'm a struggling guitar player.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.

I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.

From childhood, I have been more of a musician than a singer. People close to me know how much effort I put into practising. Even when I am travelling, I have my tanpura on my iPhone.

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

I started playing music when I was around 10. I always wanted to be in a band, so I started out by playing drums.

I'm desperate to start a career in music.

I used to want to be a singer and a musician for years, from 6 years old to today. I'm not really good, but in time I could be. I'm more of a singer than anything.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

I didn't play a lot of bass as a kid, but I sang it.

I don't really have music goals. It's just a huge field I want to dedicate my life to.