Phoebe Bridgers Quotes

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.

I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

I knew music was for me from an early age.

I wanted a guitar when I was 4 or 5, and I learned how to play guitar by the time I was 6. Just self-taught.

At 12 or 13, I picked up a guitar because my mother made me learn how to play.

Music was sort of my thing at first.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

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

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

I lived for music since I could think.

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.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.

From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.