Career Quote by Melanie Martinez

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 wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons. I need…

— Mike McCready

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

— Courtney Barnett

I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career…

— Jerry Jeff Walker

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

— Gregory Harrison

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then…

— Tim Minchin

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living

— Lyle Lovett

I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would…

— Sam Hunt

I write songs, I play a guitar and that's it.

— KT Tunstall

When I found music I thought, that's what I want to do, but the idea of it being a job never crossed my mind.…

— Caleb Followill

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was…

— Kina Grannis