Glenn Danzig Quotes

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

I love stretching myself musically.

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 sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

I came to singing organically.

When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, 'Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.' When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.

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.

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

My music is an extension of who I am and what I went through and what I know musically.

I've been playing music since I was born.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I started singing the second I could utter sound.

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

'Soulfire' is a collection of stuff I've done in the past. Each song is an element of who I am: There's a doo-wop song on the album; a blues song, R&B and some jazz. For people who are going to be hearing me for the first time, it's an introduction to who I am.

When I play the trumpet, I'm in a different character.

I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

It seems like I've always been singing, at least since I was 5.

I never left music, I just left the music scene.