Huey Lewis Quotes

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

I'd been going to college for nine years, and before I completed my dissertation, I quit.

When I came back to go back to school on my time off from modeling, I went to Palomar.

I had a couple of years of rebellion - I was singing in a rock band.

I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.

I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.

I danced with passion to spite the music.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

The only thing I have ever really cared to be known as is a musician.

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

I had the question asked of me before, 'What do you like better: singing or playing guitar?' If I'm gonna be totally truthful, if that microphone's in my hand, I'm loving it. When the guitar's in my hand, I'm a little nervous, but I'm still loving it.

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.

My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my exams and thought, 'I don't really want to do a degree.' I did philosophy with the Jesuits for about a year, and then I joined a bank. While I was there, I saw an ad in an Irish paper for radio announcers.

I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd done a lot of reading on my own, so I persuaded New York University to enroll me.