Emilia Fox Quotes

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

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

I used to play the drums when I was, like, 5 through 10.

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.

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

My first performance was in second grade with my friend Rodney Fisher, and we worked up versions of 'Long Tall Texan' and 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' It gave me a little early confidence that I could actually do this music thing.

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

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.

The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and concert band did well in county competitions, and the dance band formed by its students was the best in the region. I played lead trumpet in all of them.

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

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

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.

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.

I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

I've been playing music since I was born.

All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard.

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.