“I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.” YearsFirstsThreeParentFourFitSixInstrumentsSevenGuitarEightFour YearsPlaying Guitar Author:Chord Overstreet
“(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.” WritingYearsLongEnoughPlayYoungFiveFourSixInstrumentsEightSongwritingWriting Poems Author:Willie Nelson
“The tweets are getting shorter, but the songs are still 4 minutes long. You're coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song is still 4 minutes long…I realized about a year ago that I couldn't have a complete thought anymore. And I was a tweetaholic. I had four million twitter followers, and I was always writing on it. And I stopped using twitter as an outlet and I started using twitter as the instrument to riff on, and it started to make my mind smaller and smaller and smaller. And I couldn't write a song.” WritingYearsMindLongStillsCharacterSongMillionsFourMinutesYears AgoInstrumentsI RealizedFollowersOutletsTweet140 Character Author:John Mayer
“Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.” PeopleMindAbleSchoolAbilityTeacherFourInstrumentsMedicineMedicalAmazedSurgeonsGreat TeacherMind BlowingMedical SchoolMedical EducationPhysical Ability Author:Mary, Queen of Scots
“There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and inventor, plus a leading author, statesman, and philanthropist. There has never been anyone like him.” NationsFourTalentAmountScientistInstrumentsPlusSheerInventorStatesmenFranklinPhilanthropist Author:Charlie Munger
“I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in the process of playing these four strings is to try and understand the people I meet, the stories they have to tell. And then become an advocate for them and their stories through music.” PeopleTryingStillsPlayStoriesProcessFourInstrumentsStrings Author:Yo-Yo Ma
“So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!” WorldYearsWaitingHalfAudiencePiecesFourWonderfulStrangeCreaturesInstrumentsBillionsEvolveDirtWonderful World Book:The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist Source: The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
“I never experimented with the hoddu like I wanted to do. Like on the song "Allah Addu," the hoddu and the voice is something that belongs to West African culture. When you go to the north of Mali, in the past it was just the singer and one instrument player. We never really did have that on our CDs. On some other songs, like "Laare Yoo," we have a whole section of hoddu, something like four of them playing together.” WholeWantedTogetherPastSongCultureVoiceFourPlayerInstrumentsWestSingersSectionsCdsAfrican CultureMaliPlaying Together Author:Baaba Maal
“So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to pianos and musical instruments. Whenever we went to a friend's house, I vaguely recall climbing up on the piano, plunking on it, and trying to figure it out. So my parents figured I was interested and asked me if I wanted to take piano lessons. I said sure.” IfsTryingSaidWantedHouseParentFiveFourFiguresLessonsInstrumentsMusicalPianoClimbingRecallsMusical InstrumentsPiano LessonClimbing Up Author:Vienna Teng