Noah Cyrus Quotes

I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.

I've always thought 'Southern Accents' would make an amazing country song. It's always spoken to me. I've always loved it. Every time I hear that song, it reminds me of my dad.

I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.

My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.

I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.

I don't sing. I played guitar for a while. I'm not great, I'm not Lenny Kravitz by any means, but I do like to strum.

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer.

My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

I've actually been playing music ever since I was a young a kid. I got my first guitar when I was about 7 or 8 years old, so I've always been doing music.

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

I want to make him the proudest dad to have me and I want to show everybody and nearly be as good as him because he was the best.

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice.

There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?'

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

You couldn't really like a bad guitar in 1960 'cause everybody was pretty good.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.

Music's been a huge passion of mine since I was really young. I started playing guitar when I was thirteen.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

Dave Cobb is someone who shows up every day and is playing guitar and never takes his eye off the ball. That's what the greats in music do. The music is in great hands as long as he's making it.

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.