Mena Grabowski Trott Quotes

How could I? I only know two tunes. One of them is Yankee Doodle. The other isn't.

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.

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

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 have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.

I'd rather make music if I had the talent.

I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.

I'm a bit of a shopaholic. I've been working in the Bollywood film industry since I was 17, and I have always been financially independent, but I think I would be useless looking after my own money.

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

I'm never gonna be a Carlos Santana - an instrumentalist. I just like songs. It's three minutes of something that can be very powerful.

I can make dopey decisions for which I have to pay. If I take some little old lady's superannuation money, I would be mortified if things didn't go to plan.

I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, 'Well, neither do I.' I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers.

It's not exactly a big surprise that women mature earlier than men do. As a result, they tend to display better judgment, particularly when it comes to money.

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.

The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.

My talent is definitely a gift. I don't understand where it comes from. I don't play an instrument, and I never went to school for music production, but I know exactly how a song should sound and how to give an artist direction.

Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money.

There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?'

When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties.

I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.