Don McLean
Related When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started ... MIRANDA COSGROVE KIP WINGER There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar... ANDY SUMMERS I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music befor... MAC DEMARCO MICHAEL GAMBON EDDIE VEDDER JEFF BUCKLEY My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar! IRIS DEMENT I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play... TINA WEYMOUTH TODD RUNDGREN ACE FREHLEY JEFF BUCKLEY B. B. KING For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clap... NEIL JACKSON B. B. KING JEREMY RENNER I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this prob... MAC DEMARCO PETE TOWNSHEND I thought maybe slotback or wide receiver, ... I came here as a wide receiver and I always wanted to... DANTE ROSS KIRK HAMMETT DIMEBAG DARRELL TOM PETTY LANCE BASS JIMMY PAGE The first guitar player I saw putting on a show was Guitar Slim - I must've been 13 years old - he c... BUDDY GUY When I was 16 the first girl I had a crush on wasn't interested at all. I liked her from afar fo... LUKE PASQUALINO I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar. KAKI KING When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and ... ALEXANDER LUDWIG I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g... SIMON COWELL I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never b... KATE BUSH Everybody had been telling me I was going to play. My family, my friends. So when I got here, I just... ALFONSO SMITH I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but ... DOC WATSON As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the dru... DARON MALAKIAN I got my first guitar when I was 15. Danny was just a little bugger. GEORGE BAXTER When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16. HAILEE STEINFELD I don't get facials. The last time I got a facial was when I first started modeling when I was 1... CHANEL IMAN JOAN BAEZ I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught. ERNIE ISLEY DIERKS BENTLEY So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too. STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of ... MEL TILLIS The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't ha... PHIL ANSELMO I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about. YOLANDI VISSER I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'... MICK MARS BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG SHAILENE WOODLEY You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I p... JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW If something was to happen to part of my family, I don't know what I'd do. AISHA HINDS ROBERT SMITH You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play somethin... BARBARA LYNN I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my elect... BILL CALLAHAN LARRY DAVID When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his... VALERIE JUNE People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. ... MITCHEL MUSSO I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes. OTIS RUSH It wasn't until I was at 39 that I joined my first real hockey team. Which was great. I scored a... ADEN YOUNG I thought it was a good way for me to say thanks to him, ... He left me every piece of musical gear ... ALAN YATES I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd don... DAN HAWKINS When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I at... ALICIA SACRAMONE ERIC CLAPTON DAWN STEEL LEONARD SUSSKIND PETE TOWNSHEND AXL ROSE I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something lik... DWEEZIL ZAPPA ALEX LIFESON In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I ... TOMMY RAMONE I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dul... DANIEL HANDLER ED SHEERAN I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually ... HEATHER DONAHUE I remember when I got to 16, my mum was like, 'No, now you've got to go and get a proper job... KELLY BROOK I wasn't naive, but at the end of my Miss America year, when two different executives attacked m... GRETCHEN CARLSON When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I mig... JUSTINE BATEMAN POST MALONE I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Mar... DAN AUERBACH I thought it was a good way for me to say thanks to him, ... He left me every piece of musical gear ... ALAN YATES KHLOE KARDASHIAN Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about... TED CHIANG It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high ... MARY CHENEY I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my per... MAIA MITCHELL I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth ... JOHN FOGERTY KIRK HAMMETT CHUCK BERRY It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, th... REBECCA FERGUSON BONNIE RAITT NORA EPHRON By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tin... ED BEGLEY, JR. DOUGLAS ADAMS ALESSIA CARA CANDACE CAMERON BURE The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced. VINCENT D'ONOFRIO As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play an... LES PAUL ROBBIE COLTRAINE CARLOS SANTANA KATY PERRY When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frank... BEN CHANDLER My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cl... DAN AUERBACH IAN MCEWAN EDDIE VAN HALEN I pick up my guitar and play. 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I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always be... 
I got it into my head that I had somewhat neglected the guitar, and then I did a record called '... 
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