John 5 Quotes

I've been fascinated by music for as long as I can remember. I was the kid on the playground in the third grade who would tell other kids about Paul Simon or Depeche Mode.

Being a musician - and I like to think of myself as a musician with a capital M - you need to be an omnivore, and I think the best musicians will listen to anything and love everything, and I do.

My mother and dad loved music, were very much into music.

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

I'm the kind of guy that if I go to a concert and hear something that knocks me out, I don't want to be left out of that. I'm going to try to get into that, and I'm running back home to practice.

I'm into something that definitely does require your attention, and with that, you're not going to run out of things to do. You're never going to be the master of music.

I can't choose a favorite musician, because I love music so much that whatever/whomever I'm listening to at that moment is my favorite.

You can't really force kids to like music. I'm a firm believer in an organic fan base.

I never wanted to be singer. People in my family love music, and I pursued it as a hobby.

My mom says that she caught me one day in front of the TV watching opera. I was trying to sing back the opera. She saw that I really liked music, and so she put me in piano lessons when I was about three years old.

I think when it came to music, it did feel quite natural because it was something that I was so passionate about.

I knew from when I was six that music would be my life, and I used to spend most of my time in the music room.

I wanted a guitar when I was 4 or 5, and I learned how to play guitar by the time I was 6. Just self-taught.

Everybody in Georgia is musical, but I was slightly obsessed.

Music and musical instruments were proximal to my life from very early on - I took piano lessons for a brief time, but then my dad had a guitar and when he was not playing it, I would pick it up and mess with it. He jokes that I used to complain that it hurt my fingers.

There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.

I'm the kind of person who, if I like one song, will listen to all of the band's work before moving on to another group.

Music was always a huge part of me, but I always did it on the side. I didn't even take any music classes in high school... it was more of an extracurricular thing.

I've been in love with music since I was old enough to establish my taste.

Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.

I'm obsessed with Lorde. Oh my gosh. I'm always listening to Lorde. Her music is so powerful.

Musicians and non-musicians alike are priding themselves on the width and breadth of their musical interests, which I think is to be encouraged.

Despite being a classical musician, I keep poking my nose in other genres of music.