Divorced Quote by Joshua 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.…

— Josh Homme

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

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

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

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 grew up with my parents always listening to rock music. My dad wanted me to play guitar, but I always had more of…

— Murda Beatz

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it

— Gavin DeGraw

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

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

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

— Rickey Medlocke

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