K. J. Yesudas Quotes

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

There is something about performing my own music, and other people's music, that gives me pleasure. I think I learn more by doing that than I ever did studying music.

My demographic is very broad. Once they come, they had an idea about jazz, and then they hear me, and they come back with sisters, brothers, and kids. My audience looks like America to me.

I learned everything I know about music from my parents and my sisters.

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

When I hear people clapping at the wrong times, I think that's great. We have got a listener that's not used to going to - we have got a new listener.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

My only ambition is to grow as a musician.

The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think my playing is getting better because of it - not necessarily better on a technical level, but certainly on a level of appropriateness.

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.

You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.

As you grow older, you learn to appreciate all the artistry. I'm actually on my way back to the blues, you know, that my mothers and fathers liked.

You're born with a certain love of something. Music was my first love, and that's the world I work from. Growing up, I was surrounded by artists, so my upbringing supported this lifestyle.

I was put on so many different musical stages growing up that I didn't think about what kind of music we played. I just thought music was music.

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.