Grandparent Quote by Petra Haden

When I was 12 years old I discovered Bill Monroe and my dad got me a mandolin.

— Marty Stuart

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

— Page McConnell

I was two years old when I saw the mandolin for the first time, and I just loved it. I just loved the sound…

— Chris Thile

I don't know how it got around that I play a lot of instruments. I really don't. I play the guitar and the mandolin.

— Marty Stuart

I started playing mandolin when I was three or four years old because I was too small to be playing guitar. As I got…

— Ashley McBryde

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play…

— Brendan Gleeson

At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums... '…

— Robbie Robertson

I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'

— Parker Posey

Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.

— Keith Moon

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

— Noel Redding

You know there's this really strange mystique about Simon and Garfunkel, when they use the amazing mandolin and all the percussive stuff. It sometimes…

— KT Tunstall

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

— John Fogerty