I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.

— Johnny Rivers

I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing for it…

— Roger McGuinn

Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started…

— Bryan Hayes

We weren't straight-A students. We didn't start playing until we were teenagers, and we started playing rock and roll and punk rock - power…

— Ketch Secor

Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums."

— Miles Davis

My parents gave me guitar lessons aged five in the hopes I'd go into classical music and do grades, but as soon as I…

— Griff

When I was 12 or 13, my dad taught me a couple of different chords, and once I learned chords, I never learned to…

— Thomas Rhett

As a kid, I used to sit there and figure out how to play everybody's song, and through learning all those songs I learned…

— Scott Storch

I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they…

— Jools Holland

My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one above,' so…

— Joe Pass

There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a…

— Charlie Trotter

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like…

— Valerie Simpson

What I learned from people like Carlos Santana is that you cannot get too happy after working for five years in the industry. It…

— Wyclef Jean

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Something that I learned from 'Friday Night Lights,' sometimes if you have four or five scenes in an episode, it's not having less than…

— Jason Katims