Tom Chapin Quotes

There was always music playing in the house. I started singing at three, like my sisters did. When I was around four, we decided to put together a group and had so much fun with it.

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad bought me a $7.50 guitar.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

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

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

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.

Reuniting with my brothers musically has been really incredible.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

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've never mastered the guitar. Either I was playing it, or it was playing me; it depends how you look at it. As a kid, the only things I had to do was go to school, do my homework, and play guitar.

I've spent my life playing music.

My dad played a little bit of piano and guitar, but not that professionally. I saw him play, and I said, 'I want to play. I want to try this instrument.'

My first real real guitar I had was a Charvel, model 1 and that was when I was 15, I think, I got that.

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

A family friend was staying with us once and had brought over a ukulele. I just loved the way she played it. I saved up the money from my 11th birthday and went out and bought one for myself.

My first memory of guitar was seeing my father play one.

My earliest memory of music has to be watching my mother play the santoor.

My oldest boy, when I do skip, he's gonna take over my slot. He was sitting on the stair in diapers wearing my mask with sticks while we were downstairs trying to learn how to be a band.

We've played music all our lives.

My father had a sitar made for me that was half the size of a normal one.

I have two brothers that are musicians. My older brother, Yuval, is a saxophone player. My younger brother, Avishai, is a trumpet player.