Paul Allen Quotes

I don't really regret much of my music life.

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.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?

More than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music.

I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.

I have been very blessed with some great songs.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

I was a late bloomer in the music business.

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

When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.

I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.

When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.

Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11. I guess our goals were always small goals. It started off my goal was just to be in a band. Then it was to have a drummer that would show up.

I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

I think it's important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top. If you ride to the top quickly, you're liable to fall as quickly. Take your time. It's a long journey ahead of you as an artist. There's nowhere that you're supposed to be other than right now living inside of your art.

The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.

I did some stage when I was a kid, around 16 or so. I was living in Melbourne and had a band. I was quite young. We weren't very good. Then I found a band in Perth. We played around for three years. We're in the 'History of Rock'N'Roll,' a book about Perth music.

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

I would love to be like a Brian McKnight. Shoot, I'd love to be Brian McKnight.

I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

I'm a late bloomer in music.