Tom Misch Quotes

When I was five I had violin lessons.

I didn't play a lot of bass as a kid, but I sang it.

I started playing guitar when I was eight. Well, I started piano and really liked it but never practiced, but it taught me how to read music, and then my mom signed me up for guitar lessons, and I connected to that way more.

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

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years.

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark.

I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

I studied violin when I was very young.

I played trumpet in school at an early age.

I started playing on my grandmother's organ at a really young age. I learned 'Chopsticks' and that kind of thing, but I didn't really start picking it up and start taking it super seriously until I was probably about 13, 14.

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

I'm a struggling guitar player.

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.

I don't play the tuba.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.

From childhood, I have been more of a musician than a singer. People close to me know how much effort I put into practising. Even when I am travelling, I have my tanpura on my iPhone.