Back Quote by Josh Homme

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.

— Joshua Homme

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things:…

— Greg Iles

There was always a guitar hanging around the house when I was a kid. It was a much lower impact instrument than me playing…

— John Rzeznik

Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's…

— Dan Auerbach

My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I come from a very musical family. My dad taught me to play guitar. I play violin and drums as well. Violin, I started…

— Amandla Stenberg

I got a drum set at the age of four. I wasn't playing that well, just kind of banging around. I just wanted to…

— Shuggie Otis

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

— Anonymous

My first instrument was the drums. Not quite sure why I quit and changed to guitar, but I'm sure my parents might have convinced…

— Jill Sobule

I never wanted to play guitar when I was younger. I wanted to be a drummer because everybody plays guitar, and I didn't want…

— Jack White

I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.

— Joe Cocker

I played guitar since I was 9 years old, drums since I was 11.

— Kenny Beats