Tom Araya Quotes

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

I've played the guitar since I was 12, I've played the piano since I was 15.

When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music.

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.

Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.

I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that's how I learned to play the guitar.

My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.

I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends who told me they were starting a band and needed a guitarist. I told my folks, and by the next day I had a guitar lesson set up with a local teacher.

Surveys of thousands of gamers have shown that they're more likely to play real music if they play a music videogame. So it's an interesting relationship where the games aren't replacing something we do in real life, they're serving as a springboard to a goal we might have in real life, like learning to play an instrument.

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

Creating sounds together with other musicians is something I've always liked doing.

To me, a sure-fire way to get in a rut is by sitting around playing by yourself for too long. You've gotta get out there and jam, man! You don't have to necessarily be in a band, all you've gotta have are a couple of buds who play too. They don't have to be guitarists either; jamming with a bassist or a drummer is cool.

My father started me out on the flute and I began going to teachers.

One day, I would love to learn how to play piano and guitar.

Fundamentally, if there is any secret, it is about the need to find that peace and calm in our personal space with music, as most of 'learning music' is about listening to music and practicing over and over again.

I played guitar since I was 9 years old, drums since I was 11.

In 'Boondien' I worked with a band where everyone had their own instrument to play.

I played trumpet in school at an early age.

Do you know it took me 27 years to understand the C major chord on the piano?