Judith Durham Quotes

I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

I know it sounds weird for a 12-year-old to say that he wants to start writing songs, but that's what happened.

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

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

When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.

Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a book to play some chords, so I was laying down 'Hound Dog' and things like that when I was 10 years old in 1955. That's the way I was. My ear was glued to the radio. I knew right then what I wanted to do.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.

I started writing songs at 17.

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

I was 18, at art school, and saw this cute boy playing banjo. I was obsessed. I taught myself how to play. I listened to a lot of country and just messed around. The second song I wrote on the banjo was 'Good to Be a Man.' That what's got me signed.

My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick sharkskin suit. Believe it or not, that's how I decided I wanted to get into music.

The ultimate part that I want to play in my life is Jimi Hendrix, so I guess I'm drawn to music even though I can't sing or dance very well.

I have been very blessed with some great songs.

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.

I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.

I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I didn't start singing and writing songs properly until I was 19.

I was 15 when I started making music properly.