Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

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

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.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

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

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.

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.

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.

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.'

Listening to A. R. Rahman as a five-year-old opened my mind to a whole new set of creative dimensions.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

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

I've had a wonderful life with music.

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 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.

Music is a nice friend to have around, whether it is just for yourself or for other people. If you can enjoy it, being professional is almost secondary.

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

I lived for music since I could think.

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.