Mel Torme Quotes

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

I'm a late bloomer in music.

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

I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until finally I got one that was big enough to make a proper sound.

I started playing music at a pretty young age.

I took lessons since I was little; I used to pay for my own singing lessons and take myself. Just take the bus when I was a kid and go. But I'd been writing music for years, since the smallest age.

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

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

Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I was 15 when I started making music properly.

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

I've been doing music in some form since I was seven years old.

I am a Delhiite, and my journey as a singer began in the city.

I was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14.

My father, Aparesh Lahiri, was a musician too, and at a very young age, I was geared up for a career in music.

I was a late bloomer in the music business.

I've been making music since age five.

I came to music very young.

Mike is a genius guitar player and keyboard player. I realized that, with this group, I just joined Mike Keneally's band!

I didn't know how to play guitar until I was 21, but from the moment I was good enough on guitar to even put one song together, I kind of billed myself as an artist.

When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.

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

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.