James McBride Quotes

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.

Music is my first love and the thing that I feel extremely connected to. I feel like I still have a long way to go within that in terms of being able to perform and write songs. But, yeah, I really hope 'The Possession' opens doors for me to do more acting, because I really enjoyed it.

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

I want to do music, and I want that to be the highlight of everything that I do. I want that at the forefront.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

To me, music is more like a spiritual seeking that takes one to unknown levels.

You can't help but have ideas when you're inspired musically.

Homer Collyer's chosen form of self-expression is the piano, although late in life, when his hearing also goes, he takes to writing.

I must have been five or six when I realised all the stuff I was writing made sense with what I was playing on the piano.

I don't want people to think that I think I'm this great drummer because, to me, I'm just a kid playing drums, and I love music.

Money is a resource for me and it is needed to make music.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

I started EWF because I had a vision, and music was playing in my head that I wanted to bring through. What I had in mind was exactly what Earth, Wind & Fire became.

Music is what I always dreamed of doing. But at a certain point in my career, they convinced me to act, and that started me acting.

All I ever wanted to do, personally, was bring something new to what I loved: the thing that I loved the most, the music that I loved the most.

At the end of the day, I love singing, whatever the style might be.

I got this cheap guitar, and then I fell in love with it and basically put down the keyboard.

Country is and always will be my heart, but I don't have a problem with it spilling over into pop if it wants to.