Instrument Switch Quotes

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.

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.

I started playing violin when I was about five years old and I learned to read a little bit of music, but that's all been long, long forgotten! I actually quit violin to teach myself guitar and just went from there.

First, I started to play the organ. I did that until I was 11. From the age of 11 to 13, I gave up music entirely. And then at 13, I picked up the guitar, and after one and a half years, I started practicing intensively. I began playing in rock bands, and it was there that I discovered that the music I liked to write was always instrumental.

My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar.

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

My first instrument was the drums. Not quite sure why I quit and changed to guitar, but I'm sure my parents might have convinced me that the guitar was way better.