Joshua Roman Quotes

I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician.

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.

I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

I play a bunch of instruments.

I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.

I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

I've often thought that my background in rock 'n' roll has gone to waste in film work. My background was that I was a rock 'n' roll drummer and I don't think I used drums in my first ten years of film scoring.

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

I never went to music school.

I was someone who knew what they wanted to do for so long. I was always fascinated by music, always a student of pop.

My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.