Sam Hunt Quotes

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

In high school, I would secretly play Joni Mitchell songs all the time. That's when I started singing and playing at the same time, and I got really into doing that.

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.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.

I took piano lessons when I was really young, like five years old, and I didn't really enjoy that very much. It was kind of too strict. So when I was probably 11 or 12, I started playing guitar and just kind of taught myself.

I jumped into a world of musical learning that was very much led by myself and then I drew from the music that was all around me.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.

When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.

I lived for music since I could think.

Music is a continual learning process. One finds new insights all the time. For me, it began at a very early age; from the beginning, there was something besides the notes.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

When I started out at about 19, 20, it took me two years just to tell the difference between a jig and a reel. It does all sound the same, but what you can find once you go in - it's never-ending. So that's my love.

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.

It was like I had a baby and I suddenly started to feel I could play anything.

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

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

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 grew up playing the piano, but you know, as a rebellious child, I convinced myself that I hated it.