Joe Bonamassa Quotes

My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it.

I don't recall getting a first guitar.

The first guitar I ever owned was a Kay SG copy. That cost like $35. Man, that was a terrible guitar.

My aunt Maxie had a plastic guitar in her closet, and I started playing that, going nuts on it. I went to stay with my dad, and he saw how much I was into it, and I put my first guitar on layaway. It was a Kay Starter Series guitar and Gorilla amplifier.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your Love' by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song.

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

I started playing the guitar and singing at about 11 or 12.

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

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.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved it. I started making up my own songs right away.

The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.

There are early videos of me at three years old with a tiny guitar trying to sing 'Friends in Low Places' by Garth Brooks.