Ziggy Marley Quotes

I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how to make great music. Of course, part of it is his incredible talent. Who are the greatest jazz singers in the world? Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ray Charles.

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

I know girls like musicians!

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

I wish I could sing or play an instrument.

I'm very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can't play an instrument. I'm a terrible singer. I'm not about to launch my album!

I always got great respect as a bass player.

For whatever reason, all my friends are musical wizards and in great bands, but yeah, it really skipped over me. It's one art form that I can just sit back and appreciate and no have thoughts on. If I watch a movie, I always think, 'Oh, I'd have done this.' But with music, I can just sit back and think, 'All right, this is great!'

I didn't play a lot of bass as a kid, but I sang it.

I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.

Music has always been a large part of my life, and I'm very fortunate to be able to start a career doing something I love.

Billy Sheehan has always been my number one favorite bass player of all time.

I can sing, but I consider myself a bass player. I'm, you know, a musician first.

I play the saxophone, and I used to play the piano.

I just love music. I am very good at music.

Music is my passion. I've always been musically driven and musically inclined. I play the keyboard a little bit. I love listening to music and discovering music. That's my love, but I'm not a rapper at all.

I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.