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“I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.”

Littles Two Play Three Records Performing Flats Tape Recorders

Author:Erykah Badu

“I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.”

Play School Drama High School Performing Department

Author:Missi Pyle

“I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.”

Years Firsts Age Stage New York First Time Fairs Performing Brooklyn Performing Music Brooklyn New York

Author:Theophilus London

“I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.”

Years Jesus Performing Opera Zola

Author:Zola Jesus

“I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.”

Thinking Way Philosophy Answers Progress Philosophical Conclusion Reaching Prize Exploring

Author:Kwame Anthony Appiah

“I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.”

Men Years Males Publish Fourteen

Author:Judy Dater

“I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.”

Taken Expression Photography Understood Photographer Accidents Assistants

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a career in music. I studied classical music, and my instruments were guitar and piano. I played keyboards in bands, and after high school I went to Vienna to study at the Academy of Music. I also became a session player, which culminated in my work with Tangerine Dream.”

“I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.”

School Four Lessons Piano Piano Lesson

Author:Jacqueline Emerson

“I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.”

Looks Guy Involved Exercise Legs Ridiculous Plot Pilates Stirrups

Author:John Stamos

“I started playing around with local rock band swith the alto. And then, in a nutshell, somebody fell ill one night, the lead singer of one of the bands, and they knew I could sing, so they asked me if I would stand in. And I quite enjoyed it, actually, I must say, at 14. It was a real trip to have girls wave at you and smile and everything just because you opened your mouth and sang.”

Ifs Real Night Girl Rocks Band Mouths Ill Wave Singers Locals Enjoyed One Night Rock Bands Playing Around

Author:David Bowie

“I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball.”

Play Wanted Half Growing Football Basketball Baseball Balls

Author:Moses Malone

“I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me”

Kids Sports Knowledge Player Dad Balls My Dad Gamer Ball Players

Author:Kurt Russell

“I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.”

School Sports Growing Up Growing Streets Basketball Baseball Soccer Playing Baseball Playing Basketball

Author:Earl Monroe

“I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.”

Doe Reason Bass Guitarist Playing Bass

Author:Mike Dirnt

“I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me if I wanted to play bass and he played me this song - Nirvana's version of "Molly's Lips", the Vaselines song - and he said, "You can do this! This is not hard!" and it's like a two-note song. I learned that and then I thought I was a genius.”

Ifs Wells Said Two Hard Reason Play Wanted Song Can Do Genius Band My Friends Notes Lips Versions Bass Playing Bass Vaseline

Author:Jens Lekman

“I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.”

Dog Brother My Family Guitar Electric Chords Carter Acoustics Stanley Hounds Electric Guitar Bluegrass Hound Dogs

Author:Dan Auerbach

“I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.”

Years Children Persons Play Character Helping Hands Happens Games Ability Decision Luck Very Good Excuse Chess No Excuses Chess Game Playing Chess

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.”

Years Moving Mother Father Forget Five Pieces Style Kings Chess Five Years Mates Hunting Trainers Five Year Olds Playing Chess

Author:Garry Kasparov

“I started playing classical music, and I still do. I think music ultimately is kind of on a theoretical level, is about collecting and learning as much vocabulary as possible. It's kind of like writing. It's kind of like writing because the more you read, the more you hear people describe things. The more you soak in, as far as vocabulary, the more access you have in order to express yourself accurately and vividly.”

People Thinking Writing Kind Theoretical Classical Music Express Yourself

Author:Eldar Djangirov

“I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of instruments, but my dad actually played all the instruments I could play and then added another twenty five or thirty five different categories on there ...he was incredible! He got an act actually in Vegas, my parents Bobby and Phyllis Sherwood.”

I Can Different Play Age Parent Five Dad Musician Twenties Instruments Incredibles My Dad Thirty Categories Vegas Twenty Five Playing Drums Instrumentalists

Author:Billy Sherwood

“I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.”

Littles Kids Courses Father Streets Golf Nine Holes Golf Course Playing Golf

Author:Lewis Black

“I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.”

Thinking Writing Art Facts Artist Song Interest Natural Listening Grew Kings Grew Up Inspired Guitar Songwriting Writing Songs Playing Guitar

Author:Kate Voegele

“I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music and was just trying to copy what I heard on the radio. And at a very early age I started experimenting with old tape recorders from my parents. I was 11 or 12 at that time and then when I was like 14 or 15 I had a punk band. I made all the classic rock musician's evolutions and then in the early nineties I bought my first sampler and that is how I got into electronic music, because I was able to produce it on my own. That was quite a relief.”

“I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.”

Writing I Can Remember Guitar Playing Guitar

Author:Randy Houser

“I started playing guitar kind of by accident.”

Kind Guitar Accidents Playing Guitar

Author:Ryan Cabrera

“I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.”

Age Wanted My Own Band Guitar Playing Guitar Apprenticeship

Author:St. Vincent

“I started playing guitar when I was 12, and I started getting into more metal, like Maiden and Metallica... Of course, as I kind of got better and better in the guitar, I was listening to more guitar players, so then I got into, I guess, more of the prog side.”

Kind Courses Sides Player Listening Guitar Metals Guitar Player Maidens Playing Guitar Metallica

Author:John Petrucci

“I started playing guitar when I was in eighth grade, and that led to trying to write songs and trying to figure out how to play in bands. That led to meeting people, and getting into the local punk rock scene, and going to shows. So that was how I really got into the culture of it.”

People Writing Trying Play Shows Song Culture Rocks Figures Scene Band Meetings Guitar Locals Grades Punk Punk Rock Playing Guitar Eighth Grade

Author:Chris McCaughan

“I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.”

Years Years Ago Fourteen Harps

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.”

Guitar Heavy Complicated Metals Heavy Metal Classical Guitar

Author:Cory Arcangel

“I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.”

Years Saws Bars Who I Am

Author:Randy Houser

“I started playing instruments. Writing didn't come until later. I didn't know how to play a keyboard but I'd listen to hits off the radio, learn them, then my hands would be ready to play.”

Knows Writing Play Hands Would Be Know How Ready Instruments Radio Keyboards Playing Instruments

Author:Amanda Perez

“I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs”

Running Music Records Jazz Slow Down Analyzing Slowing Playing Jazz

Author:Lenny Breau

“I started playing Madden back in 1993 because that was the first year I actually made it into the game and that was a big thrill. When you're in Madden, you've made it, baby.”

Years Firsts Made Bigs Girl Games Sports Baby Made It Thrill Baby Girl Madden

Author:Michael Strahan

“I started playing music at a pretty young age”

Age Young Young Age Playing Music

Author:Duncan Sheik

“I started playing music when I was 18. My heart was just broken so badly that I decided that I really wanted to start playing music. It felt like the only thing that I could do in response to that. And I've been playing ever since.”

Heart Wanted Felt Broken My Heart Decided Response Playing Music

Author:Lola Kirke

“I started playing music when I was really young.”

Young Playing Music

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.”

Writing Wanted Form Acting Painting Expression Involved Dancing Piano Playing Piano

Author:Alanis Morissette

“I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.”

Firsts Passion Four Piano Playing Piano

Author:Condola Rashad

“I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.”

Littles School Talent Students Terrible Band High School Piano American Music Playing Piano

Author:Burt Bacharach

“I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.”

Play Bits Guitar Piano Back In The Day Ukulele Playing Piano

Author:Max Schneider

“I started playing polo when I was nine years old. I'm from Argentina, so in Argentina polo is more of a common thing. We have a lot of horses and a polo tradition and it's something that goes from generation to generation.”

Common Tradition Horse

Author:Nacho Figueras

“I started playing professional basketball in 1971, and I played professionally for five seasons before going to Philadelphia.”

Five Basketball Seasons Philadelphia

Author:Julius Erving

“I started playing the acoustic guitar for more singer-songwriter type stuff. I bet if I would have gotten more approval for my "rock playing", I might be a world class shredder.”

Ifs World Might Stuff Class Rocks Type Guitar Singers Approval Songwriters Singer Songwriters Acoustics World Class Acoustic Guitar

Author:Jill Sobule

“I started playing the bass because nobody else would play the bass, and then I got bumped up into singing because no one else really wanted to sing. So I learned how to sing and I wrote the songs, so I tended to get the most attention.”

Play Wanted Song Attention Singing Bass

Author:Tom Petty

“I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.”

Age Three House Teaching Rounds Piano

Author:Ella Henderson

“I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.”

Two Left Five Piano Scholarship Baltimore Conservatory

Author:Tori Amos

“I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.”

Eight Trumpets

Author:Jackson Browne

“I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.”

Years Firsts Age Learning Heard Inspired Guitar Radio Rock N Roll Ukulele

Author:Johnny Winter

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