Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

It seems like I've always been singing, at least since I was 5.

My first memory of guitar was seeing my father play one.

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small.

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

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

I saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons.

One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret.

I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

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.

The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.

I would pass this music store on the way to school, and there was a clarinet in the window, a second-hand one. And I kept asking my parents to buy it, and eventually they did. I still have it now.

I'm so jealous of my friends who came from these super musical households where they were learning piano at three years old. My parents didn't really play loads of music around the house. We had the radio, but they weren't teaching me about music.

I started playing mandolin when I was three or four years old because I was too small to be playing guitar. As I got older and more responsible with holding instruments, I was allowed to play my mom's guitar that she had.

My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'

When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set.

I watched WWE as a child. I was a fan.

We've played music all our lives.