Bob Quote by Jason Reeves

I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.

— Jason Reeves

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at…

— Russell Crowe

I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of…

— Lewis Hamilton

I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old.…

— Lucinda Williams

I've always written songs. I learned guitar when I was 9 or 10 years old and it sort of developed from there. When I…

— Declan McKenna

I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started…

— Kimbra

I went straight out of high school, and when I was 17, all I wanted to do was play guitar.

— John Petrucci

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

— Adrian Belew

I got a guitar when I was 14. I made really, really, really bad music as a teen. I learned to play Smashing Pumpkins…

— Hunx

I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to take songs…

— Danny Jacob

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing…

— Ludwig Goransson

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

— Gregory Harrison