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I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

— Don McLean

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.

— Britt Daniel

It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

— Sam Hunt

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

— Alessia Cara

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.

— Tracy Chapman

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

— Beau Bridges

✗Opposing Perspectives

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

— Robin Trower

I picked up the guitar at 12 yrs old - basically, my mother and father bought it for me for Christmas. I played one at my friend's house; when I say played it, I just played around with it at my friend's house. It just struck me as something I really wanted.

— Greg Lake

I first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth birthday. I started taking lessons when I was thirteen, but only for a few months, and then I just kept teaching myself.

— Alessia Cara

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

— Paul McCartney

I got my first guitar when I was 11. It was an electric, and I can remember just wanting to be Avril Lavigne! But I got annoyed with having to plug it in and play with amps and pedals and stuff. Then I got given a cheap acoustic, a Tanglewood, and I thought it was awesome because I could play it anywhere!

— Gabrielle Aplin