Ananya Birla Quotes

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing for it and got one. Started learning lead breaks from songs, because that was the easiest thing to do at the time. I had the guitar for two years before I learned any chords. Really.

People have used my songs and guitar style to teach guitar for a long time.

For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton's 'Tears In Heaven,' then I could play the guitar. I practised every chance I got, driving my housemates insane, until several weeks later I had a shaky version of the song down. I wrote my first song on the guitar a few weeks after that.

My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing.

I can't play guitar well at all, so I had to learn that.

At 13 I taught myself piano from an old song book, and Joni Mitchell's 'Both Sides Now' was the first song I learned.

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

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

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

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

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

As a youngster, I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.

If I couldn't act, I'd really love to try music.

I don't think of myself as a singer really.

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

I love to sing. I'm learning guitar right now.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

I love music, and I love singing.