Awkwafina Quotes

It wasn't until 9th grade that I got into music. This guy in school heard me singing around the hallway to girls and stuff. The girls liked it. One day, he was like, 'Come to my crib. I got a studio. Come and record a hook for me.' I recorded the hook on the 'Lovers & Friends' beat - Usher.

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

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.

My entire life, I wake up, and at some point in the afternoon, I head toward some kind of musical recording device. My entire life.

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

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

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

My mom eventually told me if I wanted to be in the music industry, I should start writing my own songs. At that time, I was in junior high and had no idea where to start - I was writing joke rap songs with friends. Eventually, I wrote my first song in high school, and my mom took me to go record it with one of her band member friends at his house.

Music is my number one, it's my life, it's my everything. I'm enjoying challenging myself; I want to raise the bar and set a new standard for Australian pop artists.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.

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

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

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.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.