Art Alexakis Quotes

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs. I remember staying locked up in a room with my piano and just singing and writing songs all day long. I remember being a perfectionist about it... wanting to change this and fix that.

Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

I'm definitely gonna do another solo record at some point. 'Flamingo' wasn't just me dipping my toes in the water. I really loved it. It was successful, and that helps, but I love those songs, and I miss singing them.

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I was 15 when I started making music properly.

I had no interest in music. But now, music means everything to me. I have no words to explain how beautiful music is. It is where you can create everything, like beautiful songs to sad songs to almost anything.

Playing with Iggy pulled me back in for a while and reminded me of what I love about music.

I was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14.

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

I was never chasing to make a career out of it, but every day after school, I'd go to my keyboard and play for four hours and make up songs. It was a constant part of my life.

There's a lot of older musicians who say your whole life making music, you're really trying to get back to that first couple of things you liked when you were a kid. And as much as you might like to think you're not, you really are.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

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

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.