Amber Stevens Quotes

I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.

I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew up with a very sports-oriented family. My last year of school, I got involved with playing guitar and singing, and I joined a band and I just decided that year somehow that I was going to play music.

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That's what I wanted to prove.

The first time I played in front of a live audience, I realised I wanted to be a musician. I was about four years old and had always liked music.

Growing up, even finding all those notes that you write in first grade to your future self of like what you want to be when you grow up - it was always music.

But music was never something I saw myself doing.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be either a pianist or a classical singer, and when I discovered songwriting, it was like a new portal had been opened.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

I thought for a long time that I was going to be a pop artist. It was around 18-19 that I started to make that a reality. I just knew that this was my destiny.

I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

I was always funny, but I wasn't a great musician, and I wanted to be a musician way more than I wanted to be a comic. I just didn't think comedians were cool when I was a kid.

Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead.

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

When I was 17 or 18 and it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that I didn't enjoy anything as much as I enjoyed playing music. I felt that I had no choice: that I had to become a musician.

I just looked like there was only one thing I could do: be in a band. It looked like I was already successful, basically. Which is what I wanted to do when I was 16. I just felt like if you did that, aesthetically you would just draw people who were doing the same thing.

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.