Nita Strauss Quotes

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing my own music.

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

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.

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I went from wanting to be a Beatle to becoming a 'widdly-widdly' guitar player.

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

I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.

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

I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.

I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.

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

Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room anyway. Thank goodness. But I've always contributed guitar parts to every band I've ever been in, so I'll always play the axe.

When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

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 grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.