Mike Myers Quotes

I love music. In a lot of my downtime, I spend time listening to other people's music or other people's rhymes and writing my own.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence.

I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening to pop music, you're just gonna make pop music. I listen to Adele, Yo Yo Ma, Gucci Mane.

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

I think music all the time.

Music is all I know.

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

I spend a lot of time on my music.

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.

When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything that The Beatles ever recorded. After I started drums, I fell in love with their music so much that I just wanted to learn everything.

I make music because I like making music.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

I don't sit and listen to music all day, although music is a big influence on me.

I'm just inspired by music.

I just love music. I think it's art.

What I love more than anything in the entire world is making music. It's what I studied in school.

I have grown up listening to Strings and they have always been a source of inspiration to me.

No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.

I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.

I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.