Malik Yoba Quotes

I've been doing music since sixth grade.

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.

My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.

I've been in music all my life.

My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

My family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life.

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

When I was 12, I decided to become a musician. 'Physical Graffiti' was the first album I ever owned.

Being a musician has actually surrounded and immersed me in pop culture and youth culture from a very young age. But even before I was singing in bands and creating any kind of art, I was always fascinated by pop culture.

I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.

I never went to music school.

I don't really have music goals. It's just a huge field I want to dedicate my life to.

I studied music at Dakhhini.

I've always been into music. My mom and dad used to always play music in the house.

You can never learn enough about music.

It's like I've been in music school my whole life.

I went to college to make music and study music.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.