Metta World Peace Quotes

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

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

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.

A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

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.

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

That's when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was wantin to know, at the college, how I got started playin and how do I do everything - you know, all that.

As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

I decided to start professionally making music at about 11. I was like, 'Okay, this is something I really want to do.'

I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm constantly growing.

As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.

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 was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.

Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.

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

I'm not actually a musician.

I make music almost, like, every day. But I don't release a lot of music.