Albert Hammond Jr. Quotes

I didn't have my first band until I was, like, 30.

We were both dabbling with music but no, I persuaded George, railroaded him really into forming a band. I think we both had the belief that we would make it. That was the central pillar around everything else.

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.

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

I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do.

For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

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

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

As a little kid, I'd put on shows for my family. I would sing songs and play piano. I thought while growing up in high school that I would stick with music and try to make a career out of that. As I gave it an honest, real shot, I realized it was not for me.

I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.

My first musical dream was to be a guitar player, and believe me, it's still in there.

But music was never something I saw myself doing.

Since I was a little child, I always wanted to do music. That was my passion.

I can count on less than five fingers the things I can do well, so I'm just going to stick to those. It's crazy; it's literally all I've ever wanted to do in life is sing and play and get out there and rock.

I had always wanted to make music on a big scale but never knew how it was going happen - until I saw a band in Oslo called Bridges. I was stunned. They had everything. The only thing they didn't have was me. I knew I needed to join, not for my own sake but for the band's. I knew I was a necessary ingredient.

I want to do music, and I want that to be the highlight of everything that I do. I want that at the forefront.

We never really dreamed of being a band until it just naturally happened. All of a sudden, we were like, 'Maybe we should take this kind of seriously, because people seem to like it.'

I went from wanting to be a Beatle to becoming a 'widdly-widdly' guitar player.

Once we went into the basement and learned a song, we felt successful. Then we learned two songs, and then we got a gig, and on and on - and that's the way musicians think. I don't know about other people - I mean, I don't know about all musicians either - but some are more driven than others.