At 12 or 13, I picked up a guitar because my mother made…

My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock 'n' roll?…

— Mark Alan Stamaty

I always packed around this guitar my mother gave me before I left home, I would write songs and play them for my buddies…

— Ryan Bingham

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were…

— Rachel Cusk

Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

— Tsitsi Dangarembga

The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russia’s…

— Alexandra Kollontai

I remember the different things that were happening to my family as we were getting situated and buying our first home in southwest Detroit,…

— Rashida Tlaib

I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of…

— James Blunt

I was trained at classical piano as a youngster back in PA. To rebel, I bought a drum set and played in some rock…

— Jeff Cardoni

I picked up the guitar at 12 yrs old - basically, my mother and father bought it for me for Christmas. I played one…

— Greg Lake

I picked up the guitar at 15 because of Taylor Swift.

— Nina Nesbitt

Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because…

— Brie Larson

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

— Stone Gossard

When I picked up my guitar, I spent the first day learning the chord E, the second day A, then B7, and all of…

— Ian Gillan

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

— Tracy Chapman

There's people that say “It's not fair You have all that stuff.” I wasn't born with it. It was a horrible process to get…

— Louis C. K