Alex Roe Quotes

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

I couldn't sing without a guitar. I like the way it feels to sing and be holding a guitar, even if I'm not playing it that much. All my idols that I grew up liking always had a guitar on them, but they didn't play it - Buddy Holly, John Lennon, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello. It's like having a partner with you.

I got my first guitar when I was nine because I wanted to be the fifth Beatle, even though they had already broken up and John Lennon died that year.

I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad bought me a $7.50 guitar.

I grew up watching my dad be a singer, so it's something I've always been interested in.

When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.

I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.

I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

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

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

I sing a bit and play guitar.

By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.

My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.

I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

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.