Johnny Colt Quotes

I've honestly never worked with Beyonce. It would be awesome, though; I would love that.

I got a record deal with Sony, and I really just put acting aside. But it's a love.

I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.

I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song 'Selfish.'

I toured with Lynyrd Skynyrd as a solo artist, many years ago. I love those guys.

All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

I want to figure out what kind of artist I want to be, because with the 'American Idol' process, it just works really fast. The night of the finale, they said, 'OK, here are all the label people that you're gonna work with, this is the album you're gonna make and blah, blah, blah.' So it was a pretty fast process, but it's been cool.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

Growing up, my favorite group was New Edition. I loved the opportunity to do the remix to Bobby Brown's song 'Get Away'. I told myself that I would have my own group like New Edition one day.

Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

When you're in the music business, every day is the same. If you work 9 to 5, you can't wait for the weekend, but in the music business, you don't know one day from the next. It's always the weekend.

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

When Jack White called and wanted me to do a video and play mandolin with The Raconteurs, I didn't know anything about The Raconteurs at that time.

First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on.

I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.

I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

The music industry is something that I'm still trying to understand. With acting, I've been doing it for so long that I understand every aspect of it for the most part - there are obviously still more aspects that I need to learn - but I have a grasp on it. With music, I'm still learning. I'm still getting used to it.

I really just dabble in music; I really just did a few albums for my fans.

I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.

I can't believe Tina Turner actually was on the same stage. I can't believe I set foot on the same stage, and it's going to be an album, people are going to buy it, and it's going to be a video.

I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.