Always Quote by John Williams

To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy that I felt about…

— Hozier

I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and…

— Ann Powers

I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time.

— Shura

When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and if I'd…

— Christopher Plummer

I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a child that…

— Leslie Bricusse

When I started as a kid, I wanted to be a piano player and songwriter. I only became a singer by accident.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I had an affinity for music and could play anything I heard on the piano, but I wasn't scholastically advanced in any way. It…

— Melody Gardot

I took lessons since I was little; I used to pay for my own singing lessons and take myself. Just take the bus when…

— Rebecca Ferguson

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of…

— Jim Sturgess

I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But…

— Conrad Aiken

I tried to play anything people would hire me to play, because I was a musician.

— J. J. Cale

I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to take songs…

— Danny Jacob