James McCartney Quotes

Growing up in New Orleans, when you're in seventh and eighth grade, and you're into music, and you're a dorky dude, you know, you listen to the entire Rush catalog and the entire Zeppelin catalog, and you go through these, like, phases of classic rock.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard 'Baby One More Time' on the radio and I thought 'What is this?' I was eight and it changed my life.

My passion in life, besides my family, was always music. From the time I was a kid, I was obsessed. I'm like the ultimate fan.

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

At the end of the day, I think that I'm making music for me as that 12-year-old kid in front of my boombox every day. I try to think about, if I'm that little kid, what would he like?

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.

In '92 - '93, I was at that age when I was looking for my identity and that's when I found dance music and I really fell in love with it.

My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

I am completely done with music.

Music was not a big deal to me when I was in middle school. And then I slowly became a big jazz fan. Even more than concerts, a lot of my high school time was spent going to jazz clubs in the city.

Most of the songs I've written have painted a picture on how I have evolved, what I see in people, what inspires me.

I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

I was in a self-induced depression. Welcome to me Real World.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime