Malcolm-Jamal Warner Quotes

Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

I had been in a band in college. You kind of need to make a choice between going the music route or going the acting route. I chose acting, figuring I could always do the music on my own.

I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

Dancing and singing are the two things that have stuck with me throughout my life.

I don't think that I've ever really been interested in many other things aside from music and making art in general.

I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life.

I'm glad that it worked out that I get to act and play music and perform.

Since I was a little child, I always wanted to do music. That was my passion.

I've always considered rock 'n' roll, the music and the dancing, an art form.

Literally everything I do is either write songs and play music, or I'm immersed in my domestic life.

I was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14.

I had a degree in economics but also thought of myself as a musician.

I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs.

I danced for a while, and I knew I could sing, so I just began singing in a praise band at church and doing musical theater and jazz vocal performance in school. One didn't really lead to another; I was just always interested in the performance arts.

For someone like me, music is all I've ever thought about - playing big shows, and then, when you take something that is based around your music and put it in a completely different medium, it's a really interesting and cool emotion to watch.

Music is what I always dreamed of doing. But at a certain point in my career, they convinced me to act, and that started me acting.

I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

I was born to be a musician.

The art helps, between the acting gigs. I feel that if I can sing in Mamma Mia! then goddammit, I can hang a few paintings, give people lots of cocktails, and have a good time.

Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter. I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done. But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger.

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

I don't understand how people live without creating.