Luke Combs Quotes

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'm a late bloomer in music.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

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 had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.

I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

I was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14.

There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be either a pianist or a classical singer, and when I discovered songwriting, it was like a new portal had been opened.

When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

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 and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.