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

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

I picked up the guitar very late, in a very pagan way - I didn't know how to play, but I knew I had to. I drew and I had a diary, but it wasn't enough; I needed to express more. As soon as I learned two notes, I started to tell a story, which is why, I guess, my music resembles blues or folk.

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.

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.'

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

Since I was three, music's been my life.

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.

Music and musical instruments were proximal to my life from very early on - I took piano lessons for a brief time, but then my dad had a guitar and when he was not playing it, I would pick it up and mess with it. He jokes that I used to complain that it hurt my fingers.

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

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

Playing music was always a part of my life; I don't know anything else.

I saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons.

I started writing songs at age 15.

I lived for music since I could think.

It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.