Ed O'Brien Quotes

When I was 12, I decided to become a musician. 'Physical Graffiti' was the first album I ever owned.

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs.

I play the harmonium. I had learned to use the guitar for a bit before becoming a part of the music industry, but unfortunately didn't pursue it fully. I would love to learn to play the piano because it holds a unique connect for me in terms of rhythm.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

I am a big music nerd.

Being a musician has actually surrounded and immersed me in pop culture and youth culture from a very young age. But even before I was singing in bands and creating any kind of art, I was always fascinated by pop culture.

I wanted to talk about how stupid music is. I wanted to talk about how awesome music is, and how depressing it is, and why we all make music if it doesn't last forever.

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

I love music. I listen to a lot of it.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

Music is my number one, it's my life, it's my everything. I'm enjoying challenging myself; I want to raise the bar and set a new standard for Australian pop artists.

I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.

I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.