Alice Merton Quotes

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.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.

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.

Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.

I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.

Music has always been something that I knew that I would eventually want to pursue.

I know it sounds weird for a 12-year-old to say that he wants to start writing songs, but that's what happened.

Music was sort of my thing at first.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

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 wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.

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

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 came to singing organically.

When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, 'Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.' When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.

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.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

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

For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

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

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.