Kenny Beats Quotes

I've been playing music since I was born.

I've been making music since age five.

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

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

My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.

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.

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

For me, I guess music has always been the through-line. You know, I played guitar from a really young age, and my dad played, and my cousin gave me a drum kit when I was 13, and I played bass guitar, so, you know, it was definitely always in the house.

I've spent my life playing music.

I started playing mandolin when I was three or four years old because I was too small to be playing guitar. As I got older and more responsible with holding instruments, I was allowed to play my mom's guitar that she had.

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

Music was something that nobody in my family does.

We've played music all our lives.

I started playing drums at three, then piano at five, then clarinet. But it wasn't till I picked up a saxophone aged 13 that I really got serious about music.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

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

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

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

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'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.

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!

For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

Music is something I couldn't live without. My dad was into music, he played for pleasure - guitar, piano. I started off doing jazz, singing with a lot of fabulous musicians here in London before I went to the States. And I still take piano lessons every Wednesday.

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