John Legend Quotes

When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.

All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I was playing piano at three and started writing songs when I was six or seven, and I've been addicted since then.

I've been making music since age five.

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

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

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.

When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.

I don't think of myself as a singer really.

Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.

While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.

Although I don't come from a musical background, I was given piano lessons along with my sisters, but I wasn't what you would call a good student. I tended to write songs rather than do scales.

I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.

I been doing music my whole life.

I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.

And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.

According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

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 feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.

I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record.

I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.