Lapsley Quotes

I didn't take music seriously in the beginning. It just kind of a hobby to me. It was something that I love doing for fun.

I like to sing very much.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

Music to me is something I did as a hobby.

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

I don't want to put any pressure on the music; it's my hobby and my release - a thing that I love.

I am a big fan of music in general. I listen to all genres: hip-hop, R&B, whatever sounds good to me; it doesn't matter to me where it comes from - there are no boundaries, no fences. If I like it, then it will inspire me to create.

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.

I've been loving music all my life.

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.

A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.

I love to sing. I'm learning guitar right now.

I love to play music.

My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

I cannot imagine stopping singing. It is so nice that I even do it as a hobby.

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

I'm the kind of guy that if I go to a concert and hear something that knocks me out, I don't want to be left out of that. I'm going to try to get into that, and I'm running back home to practice.