Miranda Cosgrove Quotes

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

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 was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14.

I didn't even learn to play guitar until the movie 'Walk Hard,' which is probably fortunate because maybe I would have pursued it, and that would have been a waste of my time.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be either a pianist or a classical singer, and when I discovered songwriting, it was like a new portal had been opened.

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

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

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

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 asked for a guitar when I was 8 years old for Christmas. I have no idea why. I never had any guitar heroes. I still don't. But there must have been something in me because I've been playing for 30 years.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.