Ian McLagan Quotes

My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay cheque, I already knew I was going to play music all my life.

Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.

I have been very blessed with some great songs.

I love my job as a musician, and I am filled with gratitude that good people support my endeavors.

I get to be a musician with my life, so it doesn't even matter if I'm good in it. It means at the very least, I'm pulling the wool over everyone's eyes consistently enough. And I put food on the table, and have work to do.

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

Music is something that I have to do on a regular basis. It really is my life and I absolutely love it. It's a part of my day-to-day. So if I had to choose, it would be music. But I love acting too.

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.

Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.

I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.

I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.

I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.

I am blessed to perform in the studio and on the concert stage.

My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time.

I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.

We all like music in my family, but I'm the only one who's made it my life.