John 5 Quotes

I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.

I went from wanting to be a Beatle to becoming a 'widdly-widdly' guitar player.

I can count on less than five fingers the things I can do well, so I'm just going to stick to those. It's crazy; it's literally all I've ever wanted to do in life is sing and play and get out there and rock.

When I was 15, if anything, I thought I was going to be a Delta bluesman, which is so ridiculous.

For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.

The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.

If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.

I knew I had a gift. I wanted the world to hear my music, and I wanted it to be my career, but I didn't know how to go about it.

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.

For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.

The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.

Music is my thing. In fact, that's what I wanted to do. I thought of myself as a musician. I had never thought about acting.

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing my own music.

I've spent my life playing music.

I wanted to be so many different things in the beginning - I wanted to be a rocker, I wanted to be a great songwriter, I wanted to be a great melodic singer.

But music was never something I saw myself doing.

Since I was a little child, I always wanted to do music. That was my passion.

It's hard to get a start as an instrumental guitar player. It's a much quicker route to be in a band, so I was always in a band and writing songs with singers, but I always had the dream in the back of my mind to make an instrumental record.

As a little girl, I remember thinking how great it was going to be, to be a musician when I grew up, how I was going make a jazz album, then a country album, then a rock album.