Benmont Tench Quotes

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I wrote my first song, called Spectator,' when I was 11.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

I started writing songs at age 15.

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

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

It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.

I started writing songs at 17.

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

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.

I wrote my first song when I was 6 years old. It was actually called 'Six Years Old.'

I was 15 when I started making music properly.

I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

I've always written songs. I'd come home from school and play piano for hours on end, just banging around.

I've been writing songs since my teens.

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

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

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.