Learning to Play Quotes

You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.

My sister played the piano. She’s two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.

I play a bunch of instruments, like piano, drums, guitar and bass. And the kazoo every now and then. I'm trying to learn how to play the trumpet and the saxophone. That's what I'm learning how to play.

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.

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

I didn't sing for years and years, but I started playing harp when I was maybe 9 or 10. I had actually wanted to play for years leading up to that, but no teacher in our little town would take me on as a student, because I was too young.

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.