Everything Quote by Richard Carpenter

We didn't have much money when I was younger, so I had to collect Coke bottles and cash them in and get a paper…

— Gary Rossington

When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets in my…

— Brendon Urie

I spent my entire life working with the smallest budget I could get. Just working with old, junky, donated equipment. The only things I…

— Zach Condon

Eventually, my dad bought me a guitar for Christmas, and then I just went from there, man. I bought a drum kit a few…

— Tom Walker

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.

— Joshua Homme

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

— Alicia Keys

I used to watch my father play the guitar and sing when I was a little boy. By the time I was 11, I…

— Trini Lopez

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

— Robert Moog

I was one of six children, brought up by my mother in Swindon after my father died. We had all we needed - food…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

We had a bunch of instruments around the house. Like, I played different instruments, trumpet, bass, drums, piano, all that, but whatever I could…

— Trombone Shorty

My parents took me to Sam Ash, and I got a pretty cheap setup - a MIDI keyboard and one of those cheaper mixers…

— Cuco

There were some initial instruments I had when I was young and made some trade-offs. Maybe a guitar I bought in a flea market.…

— John Petrucci