Jamie Foxx Quotes

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.

Music is something I couldn't live without. My dad was into music, he played for pleasure - guitar, piano. I started off doing jazz, singing with a lot of fabulous musicians here in London before I went to the States. And I still take piano lessons every Wednesday.

Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

You're a constant student, as a musician.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

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.

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.