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My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small.

— George Benson

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✓Similar Perspectives

I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.

— Dustin Lynch

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

— Rod Stewart

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

— Rod Stewart

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

— Arthur Darvill

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

— Billy Corgan

My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up.

— David Edwards

I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.

— Dwight Yoakam

He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around.

— Julian Lennon

✗Opposing Perspectives

I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.

— Tom Scholz

When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

— Valerie June