Kenny G Quotes

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

I like to have fun, but there are moments you need to show yourself, and that, for me, is on the pitch.

Everyone likes to have fun. But when I look back on my life, I'm not going to say, 'Oh, we're the crazy party animals.' I'll look back and say, 'Wow, we did take this seriously.' We had fun while we were out doing it, but it's just the only thing you read about: 'They're a bunch of party animals.' To be honest, that's not true.

'Dancing with the Stars' was hard work. It was interesting and fun, too, but it was hard work.

People say I wasn't a real athlete, but I trained hard. It's possible to take something seriously and still have fun at it, you know.

Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.

I take my training very seriously but I also take fun very seriously too.

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.

I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of 'Passions' are wonderful to work with.

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

Play so that you may be serious.

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.

My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it's pretty cool because we all pull together, and it's fun. It's like being on a sports team or something.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.

The most important thing I learned from Dad about show business was never take myself seriously and never stop having fun with my craft.