Paul Rodgers Quotes

I connect better with music when I see the people singing it.

Before my first album 'Born To Do It,' I used to DJ.

As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.

After school, instead of going into the restaurant scene, I very consciously took my guitar around everywhere I could, to Irish pubs and restaurants, and I played four nights a week to make ends meet.

I think that anybody can go home, put the record on, and listen to it note for note, but there's very little entertainment value in that, I believe. When you give people something visually entertaining to watch along with presenting the music, I feel it makes it a lot more interesting.

My dad used to tour playing guitar with New Edition.

When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.

I guess my first instrument was the recorder when I was about five or six.

At 10 years old, I was in my church band, playing in front of a couple thousand people every week.

I've no real musical training, although I took some piano lessons a while ago.

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing. So I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

I have been making music since I was a kid. I have written music since I was, like, seven or eight. I was in the studio at 9, 10. So I've had a lot of practice over a lot of years.

I grew up in Southern California. I played in rock bands out here, and I've been around pop music my whole life. I've been around all music my entire life.

Obviously, the big hits like 'Shout,' 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World,' 'Head Over Heels,' we play live, so there's nothing new about them to me.

I think I've been playing bass for as long as I've played guitar, and I love them both.

My career started the second we auditioned for 'The Sing-Off' on NBC in 2011.

The people who come to Purple shows are there for the music.

I've been sort of playing music since I was probably 8 years old or something like that.

When we talk about music, we tend to place our experiences into one of two categories: making the music and listening to it. Delineating the two seems practical and obvious. In reality, though, there are a lot of opportunities for overlap, and it doesn't matter how you get into the music as long as you connect with it.

I loved teaching and directing choral activities at BYU, but nothing surpasses working with the MTC musicians.

At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif.

My whole life, I've sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I've had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.

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

I've only ever been in one band in my life, and that was in middle school.

Performing live has been one of the most important opportunities I've been given, and I am lucky to share my music with so many of my amazing, loyal, and diverse fans.