Jill Sobule Quotes

I grew up with my parents always listening to rock music. My dad wanted me to play guitar, but I always had more of an ear for drums. He really wanted me to be a guitar player, like him.

It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty futuristic as well.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It's the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It's just hard to carry on your back.

I've played everything but a harp.

I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

I sit around for ages waiting for inspiration. Then when I get an idea, I want to go with it and get something as quickly as possible. It's like catching a fly in a bottle. I'll play with drums for a bit, then the piano for a bit, play the guitar.

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

I love to talk about the drums and music. I started playing drums when I was probably six and played a lot until I was about ten or eleven years old. So, I guess five or six years where I played. I had a drum set at home, and I would just bang on it. I'd even go on the Internet and study basic beats and so forth.

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

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

What made me pick up a guitar? It weighed a lot less than a piano.

I play the drums, and I'm trying to teach myself how to play the piano.

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 really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.