James Vincent McMorrow Quotes

I've been doing music since sixth grade.

My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

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

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

I started playing guitar when I was 14 and eventually gained the confidence to start singing a little bit.

You can never learn enough about music.

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

I started making music by myself and figuring all of that on my own.

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.

I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.

I was in a choir as a kid. It was from those early days that my outlook on harmonies and arrangements were nurtured. I always took that with me, even on the earliest Bad Religion record, which strangely was only about six years after that.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

I do have musical background; I sing.

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.

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

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

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.

I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.

I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.

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

I'm very lucky; I have a lot of knowledge. My favorite band is The Beatles, so a lot of inspiration for my music comes from them, too.

Eventually, my dad bought me a guitar for Christmas, and then I just went from there, man. I bought a drum kit a few years later and bought a bass, started producing, started singing.