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Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.

— Julian Lennon

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I've actually been playing music ever since I was a young a kid. I got my first guitar when I was about 7 or 8 years old, so I've always been doing music.

— Shane Harper

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.

— Slash

My dad played music so I was around it at a really young age.

— Shawna Thompson

I have two brothers, and one of them plays the guitar. I actually started playing the guitar because of him. Both of my brothers are 12 years older than me, so I thought they were really cool, and I just wanted to be really cool like them.

— Brianna Hildebrand

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.

— Tommy Chong

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

— St. Vincent

I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.

— John F. Kerry

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

— Randy Travis

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

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