About Quote by Carl Wilson

After school, instead of going into the restaurant scene, I very consciously took my guitar around everywhere I could, to Irish pubs and restaurants,…

— Nick Gehlfuss

I just naturally started to play music. My whole family played-my daddy played, my mother played. My daddy played bass, my cousin played banjo,…

— T-Bone Walker

My father owned a music store when I was growing up in Rock Falls, Illinois. He could play all the instruments, which you had…

— Louie Bellson

A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.

— Johnny Ramone

I studied music at school and played the recorder. Later in life music was a great way of supplementing my income because I was…

— Ainsley Harriott

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by…

— Colin Hay

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

— Lindi Ortega

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

— Leonard Cohen

When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon,…

— Willie Nelson

We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It…

— Gary Allan

For a long time in the 1970s, I was experimenting to build musical instruments and use them. I did a lot of ethnic music…

— Yoshi Wada

I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people…

— Artie Shaw