Gerald Clayton Quotes

I learned my first songs when I was six and seven, and when I was eight years old, I won a local talent show.

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

At seventeen years old, I found out I could sing, and I got up and sang in a club, and I got a big hand, and I thought, 'I'm gonna continue this.' So that's how it all began.

I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

Literally since I could walk... I was performing.

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

I did my first musical in 4th grade as Huck Finn. By 11th grade, I was starring in 'Godspell' and 'Pippin' and pretending to be Che in 'Evita' in my bedroom. Singing has always been a huge part of me.

I remember looking out into the sea of phone lights as Chris Martin belted 'Yellow' on the piano and deciding that that was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

I played my first show when I was 17, and that was a big moment. I realized it was something I could keep doing.

The best feeling I get is when I walk on stage.

I was inspired to be a singer/songwriter from an early age.

When I was 9 years old, I started performing around my hometown of San Antonio, Texas.

I remember seeing Tony Bennett on television. He was the only guy in the orchestra who was wearing a white tux, and I thought, 'That would be good. To be the only man on stage in a white jacket.'

I never thought of being an actress, I was always singing or playing on the piano.

I have done nothing my entire life but play music.

All I thought about when I was a kid was getting my guitar and entertaining people.

There was an open mic night when I was about 11 years old and I went and I played the songs that I'd written in my bedroom and it was the first night where I felt like I was myself at school.

I loved music before I stumbled onto acting.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer. I started playing when I was in third grade, but I wasn't very good at all.

As a working musician, your first instinct is to try and do your job. It wasn't always my aspiration to sing; I just wanted to be a great working musician. But then Flying Lotus suggested I try, and nothing has ever been the same since.

Luck has a lot to do with being a musician.

I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.

Every night on stage it gets more and more comfortable. I think it really shows in the performances and just being able to revel in it and do it and live the dream I've thought about for so long.

Writing songs has always been my first and foremost love, and, you know, whether I continue to have success as an artist or not, I will always write songs.