Bruce Hornsby Quotes

I'm lucky enough to be doing my dream job, but my second dream job would be to be a concert pianist.

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

I think I might have played a song on piano or guitar in a school talent show. I went to an all girls school, so there were always little things going on, but it wasn't really until I was 17 that I did a proper performance. My first big one was Glastonbury, before I was signed.

Solomon was a musician and David was a musician, so it's a profession that I take seriously.

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.

When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician.

I started playing music at a pretty young age.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on.

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist.

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

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