Felt Quote by Paul Simon

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

— Dolly Parton

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

— Adrian Belew

When I was 17 I got a guitar for my birthday and started discovering Bob Dylan and James Taylor and the whole '60s thing,…

— Jason Reeves

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

At 12 or 13, I picked up a guitar because my mother made me learn how to play.

— Lou Barlow

I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own…

— St. Vincent

I've played the guitar since I was 12, I've played the piano since I was 15.

— Joseph Parker

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

— Tom Chapin

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had…

— Jeff Buckley