Anderson East Quotes

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band.

I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.

Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.

In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

You can be in the band, you can go buy your own guitar strings at Guitar Center, you can go and do everything the boys can do and you're not the oddity anymore.

I wanted my own rock band and stuff like that, but things didn't work out. I didn't have the patience to write my own songs and learn it and everything.

I was in a lot of bands growing up.

There was always music playing in the house. I started singing at three, like my sisters did. When I was around four, we decided to put together a group and had so much fun with it.

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

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

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

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer!

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

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'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

I opted out of the band.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, 'Well, neither do I.' I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers.