Teena Marie Quotes

I have no clue as to where my interest and love for music came from. In fact, I have never learnt any music either, though I wish that I could just close my eyes and play the piano - that is my most cherished desire.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

Music is in my DNA!

I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.

I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way that lends itself to health.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

I don't think I can ever escape from music.

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.