Lapsley Quotes

I've performed in concert halls thousands and thousands of times in my life.

I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.

I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing is driven toward finding or writing songs and putting out hit songs that drive people coming to see me live. Because, at the end of the day, that's what I enjoy the most.

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

I would advise anyone starting out as a singer/songwriter to play live as much possible. You never know who might be in the audience.

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

I still get surprised that people don't know that I sing.

I want to express my ideas through my music and on stage because I'm a musician.

It has been a dream of mine to be a singer, and now I'm living this dream, singing some beautiful songs and winning people's hearts with my voice.

I love music but I never went to a concert in my life. The first time I went to a concert I performed on a stage with Drake.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.

I want to play in a place people want to hear me.

I sing some songs but don't expect me to release an album anytime soon.

I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.

I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't paying attention to me, to now I've got their attention. It's up to me to what I feed them with my music. It's up to me how I do that. I've put a lot of thought into how great the songs are, and how I want people to perceive me.

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.