Billy West Quotes

I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

To me, it makes more sense to write different songs and to play different kinds of music and to find your own voice. But no matter what, get out and play for people. Get out and learn, and do everything that you can, you know?

I'm very serious about what I do. I practice every day for three hours. I work on my scales; I work on my tone. But otherwise, I like to have fun.

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

I love being in a band.

I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.

I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.

My son plays guitar, and he's been at the Kennedy Center.

I grew up in a family where my father was in a rock band, and I saw and heard every story.

I'm hoping to work on some original songs and to keep performing in front of a crowd as much as I can.

I am a Delhiite, and my journey as a singer began in the city.

I have been a tabla player since the age of four.

Playing an instrument is such a wonderful pleasure.

I'm always in the studio working on music and dancing.

I have fond memories of our concert performances.

I write songs, but the guys play on them, they have opinions on them, and we tour together and spend all our time together.

Singing is something that I have learnt. I have given exams for it.

My muse has always been the piano.

If we weren't in this band, some of us wouldn't be playing at all. You have tiffs with someone when he has smelly feet in the touring van, but we all respect each other as friends first.

I toured. I played, I was in that world so intensely, and then I had to bow out.

I started singing when I was 8, and then when I was 11, I started writing my first songs.

Right before I moved out to San Francisco, I played in Buddy Guy's band.

I had a teacher at school who told me to take up the harp.