Room At The Top

Asked how he got into music, John Mayer told Mikael Wood of the Cleveland Scene: “I was always around music, you know? Growing up in Connecticut, there was a piano in the house from the time I was born, and I just gravitated toward it. I started banging out notes and realized that the more you go to the right, the higher the notes go, and the more you go to the left, the lower the notes go. And then, in fourth grade, you pick up the violin — then drop that in fifth grade for the brass. And then, when I was 13, I started playing guitar, and I haven’t dropped it yet. I think that’s proof positive that I should be at this, if I started when I was 13 and I’m still playing. You know?”