Before Quote by Randy Houser

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

— Courtney Barnett

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar,…

— Robby Benson

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

I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.

— Brian May

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

So I started to learn guitar right away.

— Piper Perabo

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and…

— Tom Petty

I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.

— Jason Reeves

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

— Dolly Parton

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

— Hunter Hayes

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

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

— Adrian Belew